Chapter 11: Mother and Son of the Xiao Family, the Ancient City in a Dream
The civilian area, as the name suggests, is where ordinary people live. It is very large, occupying almost one-third of Yuexi City. It is divided into three areas, the upper area, the middle area and the lower area.
Due to the gap between the rich and the poor in this world and the huge difference in status level, even if they are both civilians, they are still divided into upper and lower levels.
Xiao Che's home is located in the most remote and outlying lower-class area. The living environment here is harsh, the life is poor and embarrassing, and even some wild cats and dogs will not come here to look for food.
As night falls, many houses in the deep alleys have lit candles and are brightly lit. Among them, there is a simple house with dim candlelight, which is slightly dimmer than other houses.
Xiao Che shuttled through alleys one after another with ease, and it didn't take long before he arrived in front of his house.
"Mom, I'm back." He opened the door and was greeted by the faint smell of food, which made Xiao Che, who was already hungry, couldn't help but twitch his fingers.
The decoration in the house is very neat and clean, with a sense of elegance. It is far less shabby than it looks from the outside. What comes into view is the figure of a woman. The woman is concentrating on cooking at this time. Three thousand black hairs are tied up with straw ropes and coiled on the bed.
On top of her head, her simple clothes could not hide the graceful elegance emanating from her bones, like a lotus emerging from the mud but unsullied.
This woman is Xiao Che's mother, Xie Wanqing.
"You kid, you always come back so late, the food is almost cold." Xie Wanqing, who was serving dishes in front of the stove with some firelight, turned her head and looked at Xiao Che lovingly.
"It's Che'er's fault." After saying that, Xiao Che immediately took the dish from Xie Wan'er's hand and placed it on the small wooden table.
Under the dim candlelight, Xie Wanqing's delicate and charming face can be vaguely seen. The passage of time seems to have left no trace on this beautiful face. However, there is a slight flaw in her face. There is a trace of sickly paleness on her face, which faintly reveals the existence of her body.
Some injuries.
"Sit down and eat, you must be hungry!" Xie Wanqing took out a few dishes from a wooden box and brought them to the old wooden table. Although they were all vegetarian dishes, she cooked them carefully, and the aroma of the dishes filled the whole room.
"Yeah!" Xiao Che's eyes shone as he had been hungry for a long time. He had hardly eaten food all day long. How could he resist the temptation of the aroma of vegetables at this moment? He quickly put down the package and immediately sat down at the small wooden table to devour the food.
"Eat slowly, look at how you eat, no one is trying to compete with you." Xie Wanqing scolded with a smile, her eyes full of doting.
"Mom's cooking is so delicious!" Xiao Che kept pushing food into his mouth and puffed out his cheeks.
“It’s not a delicacy from the mountains and seas, how delicious can it be?”
"Delicacies from the mountains and seas are nothing, they can't be as delicious as those made by my mother." In front of his mother, Xiao Che completely let go of his guard, and a clean and pure smile appeared on his childish little face, which was completely different from the one in Wushengyuan.
Between the two of them, he now looked like a real fourteen-year-old boy.
"Look at you for being such a talkative person. If it's delicious, eat more." Xie Wanqing said angrily, with a smile on her face.
"Mom, you should eat too, otherwise I will eat all the food." Xiao Che nodded repeatedly, and at the same time, he picked up a chopstick and put the food in Xie Wanqing's bowl.
"Okay, I'll eat too." Xie Wanqing smiled lightly, and the maternal radiance she exuded seemed to make her face turn rosy.
In such a warm atmosphere, the mother and son finished their dinner. After the meal, Xiao Che helped his mother with the housework very diligently, and at the same time talked to her about herself, but he never said a word about his expulsion from the Mingling Palace.
Titi, because he didn't want his mother to know about it, which would only increase her worries. However, just because he didn't tell her, it didn't mean that Xie Wanqing didn't know about it. His mother is a smart woman. Although she is busy with daily necessities, she still remains as calm as ever.
It was as full of spiritual energy as before. When she glanced at the package Xiao Che brought back from the Life Spirit Palace, she understood something, but Xiao Che didn't tell her, so she didn't ask.
"When a child grows up, he has his own ideas." Xie Wanqing thought for a while, with a hint of worry in her autumn eyes, "There are still five months left, and it will be Che'er's fifteenth birthday.
It’s time to let him know something.”
As she said that, Xie Wanqing sighed softly, then brushed a few strands of black hair hanging from her temples, her eyes were faint, as if she were twinkling with tears.
After finishing everything, Xiao Che returned to his room and sat cross-legged on the bed. Thinking back to what Liu Hong said during the day, he suddenly thought of a person and his thoughts suddenly became a little confused.
Although what Liu Hong said at the time was extremely unpleasant, it was something that could not be defended.
It is true that Xiao Che does not have a father, or to be more precise, he has not seen his father since he was a child.
His life experience is very complicated. It is said that he has a blood relationship with the Xie family, one of the three major aristocratic families in Yuexi City. His mother, Xie Wanqing, is not an ordinary commoner, but the biological daughter of the previous head of the Xie family, Xie Hanhai.
She was also the only apple in the eye. At that time, Xie Wanqing was the most beautiful woman in Yuexi City. Her beauty could not be overstated with her heavenly fragrance and alluring appearance. Even at that time, Xie Wanqing's martial arts talent was not outstanding, but her natural intelligence
Her aura still makes her deeply loved by Xie Hanhai, the head of the Xie family, and she is also admired and pursued by many children of Yuexi City's aristocratic families.
However, when Xie Wanqing was eighteen years old, a big event happened. During a trial in the Qingling Mountains, the Xie family's trial team was attacked by the lower peak bloodline monster - the Shadow Leopard. The Xie family's team suffered heavy losses.
, and more importantly, Xie Wanqing, the young lady of the Xie family, disappeared unexpectedly. The head of the family at the time, Xie Hanhai, was so anxious that he almost sent everyone in the Xie family to search for her in the Qingling Mountains. He even went to the mountains himself and killed the girl.
Shadow Leopard, looking for his beloved daughter. After that, the Xie family searched for three days and three nights, but still found no results. Until three months later, when everyone thought that Miss Xie's daughter had passed away, she was safe.
He showed up without incident and returned to Xie's house without any damage.
Xie Wanqing is back. With her status in the Xie family, it is not an exaggeration for the Xie family to celebrate three days with noisy gongs and drums. But the strange thing is that instead of celebrating, the Xie family is in silence. There is no other reason, just because of being thanked
Xie Wanqing, who was regarded as a princess by her family, was pregnant. When the head of the family, Xie Hanhai, learned about this, he was furious and almost went crazy. Everyone in the Xie family felt humiliated and tried their best to cover up the matter.
Not surprisingly, the news of Xie Wanqing's return soon spread throughout Yuexi City, and the news of the unmarried pregnancy spread throughout the streets, making it known to all women and children.
In this world, for a woman to become pregnant before marriage, even if she is placed among ordinary people, is an insult to her family. Let alone the Xie family, one of the three major aristocratic families. In the eyes of the Xie family, this matter is like a collapse of the sky.
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The Xie family lost all face and reputation due to this incident, and the Feng family, one of the three major aristocratic families in Yuexi City, was also furious, because Xie Wanqing had already been engaged to Feng Mingyue, the second son of the Feng family, and the future son
When something like this happened to their daughter-in-law, the Feng family naturally could not let it go easily. The Feng family not only proposed to terminate the engagement, but also bluntly said that the Xie family should execute Xie Wanqing. This proposal was approved by many extreme people in the Xie family, including Xie Waner.
His biological brother, it can be said that the family relationship is extremely weak. Fortunately, this proposal was rejected by Xie Hanhai, and he only asked Xie Wanqing to have an abortion. Unexpectedly, the little daughter, who had always been gentle and gentle, showed unimaginable strength at that moment, and would rather die than save the child. So.
When this incident came to an end, Xie Hanhai still couldn't bear to execute his beloved youngest daughter. At the same time, in order to save the Xie family's face, he had no choice but to sever the father-daughter relationship with Xie Wanqing and drive her out of the Xie family completely.
Over the years, Xie Wanqing and her son have been living in a low-class civilian area. She raised Xiao Che alone, and the two depended on each other. They suffered from starvation and were bullied and ridiculed by their neighbors. It can be said that they suffered a lot. At that time, everyone thought that
Xie Wanqing could not hold on for long, but what was unexpected was that this fragile eldest daughter, who was born in a wealthy family and had been pampered since she was a child, had a soft temperament on the outside and a strong temper on the inside. For more than ten years, no matter how hard it was, she never asked for help from the Xie family until Xiao Xiao
Che raised him.
Later, the twelve-year-old Xiao Che began to show his prominence and showed amazing talent in martial arts. He was spotted by the Mingling Palace, and his life began to improve. It was precisely because Xiao Che had experienced the warmth and ups and downs of human relationships since he was a child, and had seen too much of the harshness of the world.
, now his mind is much more mature and tough than his peers.
At this moment, Xiao Che thought of these things again, and he couldn't help complaining about that man in his heart. He didn't care about it. How could he bear to let his mother, who loved him deeply, suffer so much?
"It's really irresponsible..." He said this, but he felt a little sad in his heart. He subconsciously took out an unknown incomplete book from his arms and stared at the yellowed and blurry cover in a daze. This incomplete book was that man, too.
It was the only thing left to him by the father he had never met.
He has been carrying this fragment of book with him, maybe because he has some expectations in his heart?
After a long time, Xiao Che came back to his senses and sighed softly, "The body refining method in this scroll is indeed more profound than other body refining techniques, but it is only limited to the body refining realm, and it has little help for me to break through the destiny realm.
After saying that, he put the remaining scroll aside.
Then he started
He took out three faint blue beads from his arms. Under the candlelight, the surface of the beads became more rounded. Xiao Che looked at them carefully and found that there was a faint light flowing in them, which was particularly magical.
"This thing is somewhat extraordinary." Xiao Che rolled his eyes, and immediately a stream of true energy lingered on his fingertips. He carefully controlled the true energy and tested the three beads.
After a few breaths passed, the beads were still flowing with faint blue light, showing no reaction.
"Isn't it possible? Try the power of the soul again." Xiao Che's eyes were focused and he was highly concentrated. After a moment, an invisible power of the soul enveloped one of the beads, and the blue bead trembled slightly.
Before he could show his joy, the bead returned to calmness. Then, no matter how he tried, the bead didn't respond.
"What is the origin of these faint blue beads?" Xiao Che absolutely did not believe that these beads were just ordinary mortal objects. Although he did not know the use of the beads, he could clearly sense the majesty contained in them.
energy.
"If you don't have true energy or soul power, do you need the original life force?" Xiao Che thought, and as his mind turned, a faint silver light suddenly lit up between his eyebrows, and the illusory incomplete life tablet appeared in his hand.
A wisp of light silver original life force floated to his index finger.
Speaking of true energy, there are three powers: the power of the soul and the original life force. In terms of the current strength, it is naturally the true energy. In terms of mystery, it is the power of the soul. But when it comes to being strange and mysterious, it must be the original life force.
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"This is the last hope." The light silver original life force slowly floated towards one of the blue beads under Xiao Che's control. Just when the life force was about to touch the bead, a change occurred.
, there was a sudden attraction around him, which actually pulled that ray of life force over and swallowed it up in an instant.
"What the hell?!" There was a trace of anxiety on Xiao Che's face. That was a ray of original life force that he had worked hard to cultivate and cultivate. How could it disappear without any reason? At that moment, he immediately looked at the source of attraction.
At that moment, he was stunned. He didn't expect that it was the nameless fragment that devoured his life force.
The nameless fragment that had devoured Xiao Che's life force was also undergoing startling changes at this moment. In his eyes, the nameless fragment slowly floated, and the pages of the unknown material began to peel off into black light spots.
The traces of yellow gradually faded away, seeming to reveal its original appearance. Suddenly, countless black light spots condensed into a wisp of black light, and then rushed directly into Xiao Che's mind at lightning speed.
"Boom!" An indescribable severe pain exploded in the sea of his soul. The overwhelming pain almost split his head open, as severe as the creation of the world. Xiao Che didn't even have time to scream out in pain, and was directly hit by the pain.
He passed out in pain.
There was a vast expanse of vastness and endless chaos, and everything seemed as if the world had just opened.
"The vast chaos opens, and the world begins."
The long-lasting ancient voice seemed to come from the endless void, resounding throughout the sky, deafening and enlightening.
"Where is this?" Xiao Che glanced around and couldn't see anyone. He just listened to the voice and felt an unprecedented familiarity, as if it wasn't the first time he heard it. At this time, he was in a mysterious and unknown space. He looked around,
As far as the eye can see, there is desolation, ruins, broken walls, and damaged palaces can be seen everywhere; broken halberds and broken swords are as numerous as the crucian carp entering the river. Even though they are badly damaged, they still exude a cold and murderous intention.
"Am I dreaming?" Xiao Che came back to his senses and pinched himself, but there was a hint of pain.
"Isn't this a dream?!" Xiao Che's eyes widened and he was inexplicably shocked. He gradually calmed down and felt as if he was in a mysterious ancient battlefield. He could faintly hear the sounds of soldiers fighting in ancient times, and he was filled with excitement.
Despite the bleak and murderous atmosphere, even standing in this deserted battlefield, he could still feel the brutality of the war.
Suddenly, the surrounding space changed. Xiao Che had no time to react and found that a huge, old black ancient city appeared in front of him.
The ancient city is majestic, mysterious and majestic, as if it is a divine city that exists in legends. The black ancient city is vast and majestic, with an aura that suppresses heaven and earth, as if it will last forever between heaven and earth. Xiao Che couldn't help but hold his breath and walked towards the ancient city with a shocked expression.
He went and reached out to touch the black city wall covered with Dao patterns, but just when his fingers were about to touch the ancient city wall, everything suddenly disappeared and turned into a void of darkness again.