"Jia Lan is back." Seeing Lorraine Hill return to the shrine, Granny Groo greeted her.
At this moment, she was sitting in the center of the shrine, quietly sensing the dragon veins in the vast underground. The afterglow of the setting sun poured in from the main entrance of the shrine, dyeing the black miko uniform on her lower body with a warm color.
"I'm back." The girl walked with a slightly brisk pace, first went to the yard behind, put on clean and tidy shoes, and then walked out.
At this time, Lorraine Hill took off her usual black blouse and was dressed in snow-white, with satin-like hair draped over her shoulders. Paired with her beautiful and dreamy face, she had a special aura.
"Mother-in-law, are you free now?" I stepped on the wooden board of the shrine, and there were waves of empty voices coming from my feet.
"Yes, what's the matter?" Grandma Grotto opened her eyes. She had almost finished her afternoon work.
"I want to know something about the past." Lorraine Hill came over, knelt down and sat with Granny Gro, looking out at the courtyard under the setting sun.
"Oh, did you find anything interesting?" Grandma Gro's voice was somewhat kind.
"Yeah." Lorraine Hill then talked about the girl during the day.
After listening carefully, Grandma Geluo spoke.
"It turns out she is Qing Ling's daughter. I didn't expect that she would grow up so quickly." She seemed to be feeling emotional.
"What this child said is generally correct, but there are some parts that are different."
"Actually, I knew about Qing Ling's relationship with that boy at that time." Granny Ge Luo slowly told the story.
"That boy was probably eighteen or nineteen years old at the time. He grew up on the border of the Dynasty when he was young. Later, as he grew up, some of the characteristics of the evil clan emerged, such as his skin color was very white, slightly bluish, and although his pupils were pretty,
It’s black, but it’s actually a precipitated dark green.”
"Because of the different appearance, he felt uncomfortable living outside, so he moved from the border town to this deep valley in the dusk mountains."
"Compared to those children from ordinary families, he has studied in the outside world and knows a lot. He soon attracted Qingling's attention and admiration. And Qingling had a good appearance, so the rest fell into place."
Granny Grotto narrated.
"The girl who studied with me at that time was actually not only Qingling, but also two others, so I didn't stop or care about Qingling's love affair at that time, and allowed it to develop freely."
"It's just that things gradually changed a little bit later."
"After Qing Ling got married, another girl also developed a desire to go to the outside world, and the only remaining girl also died in an accident."
"From now on, I will be the only one supporting this shrine."
"I originally wanted to train a few more children to be successors, but unfortunately, the world has changed in the past few years. Even I have to explore again, and now I can barely return to the fifth level. Let alone teach others.
. So this matter has been put on hold."
Although Granny Grotto spoke plainly, Lorraine Hill admired her calm and calm attitude.
Before the change of heaven and earth, Granny Grotto was a powerful witch in Dragon Order 8, but now she has fallen to level 5. It is conceivable that the gap is so huge that most people simply cannot accept it.
At this time, Lorraine Hill suddenly became curious about the aftermath of that period of changes in the world.
"Why are those immortals who were once ranked ninth level unable to return to the peak of their strength in the new era? Their progress is even worse than that of some young people."
"Haha, this is it." Grandma Grotto explained with a smile.
"Because we can't change our habits."
"A lot of knowledge and the way you think about things have been deeply imprinted in your mind, such as your handwriting when you write, the way you speak, and even your personality, etc."
"These things that were advantages in the past have hindered you from learning new things. Because according to the old understanding, today's cultivation methods will definitely go astray, are wrong, and will be irreversible."
"And even if you later slowly realize that such changes have actually occurred, such habitual thoughts and reactions are difficult to correct. They need to be corrected all the time. If you don't check for a while, you will go astray."
"So, people of our generation are slowly failing to keep up with the times." Grandma Grotto replied slowly.
"The most advantageous people are those young people, especially those who have reached the fifth or sixth level at a young age."
"They already have a good understanding of the practice of extraordinary power, and what they learned in the past was not long ago, and they have not formed a fixed mindset, so it is easy to change their mind."
"Although I haven't been to the outside world for a long time, I can still roughly deduce based on some information that most of the seventh-level geniuses who come to my door today are of this origin. I once reached the fifth or sixth level at a very young age and practiced again.
I caught up quickly.”
"Moreover, young people are flexible and unconstrained, and they are more bold in innovation. This is probably why they quickly emerged." Granny Groo patiently explained to Lorraine Hill the current situation in the world.
In this way, the two of them talked softly in the quiet shrine until the sunset in the distance completely set, and the two birds on the eaves of the shrine began to chirp.
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The next day, morning.
Lorraine Hill came to the top of the valley again, but today there was not only the little girl waiting for her here yesterday, but also a woman in her thirties.
This woman wrapped her head in a black headscarf, but her face could still be seen to be somewhat similar to that of a little girl. The two should have a mother-daughter relationship.
"Sorry, Caiwei disturbed Master Jialan yesterday." The woman first took the little girl's hand and bowed to her.
"Please don't pay attention to what Caiwei said. Many of them were random guesses by her." The woman was a little uneasy, and then she pulled her daughter beside her to salute Lorraine Hill.
"It doesn't matter." The girl shook her head. It turned out that the girl yesterday was named Caiwei. Then she focused her eyes on this woman.
Although she was wearing black linen clothes, her handsome face still retained some beauty. She was probably one of the most beautiful women in the town and village when she was young.
"It's up to you, do you want to go to the shrine to meet Granny Grotto now?"
"I..." She hesitated for a while, and finally nodded slowly.
"That's good, come with me." After saying that, Lorraine Hill waved his sleeves, and the black coat slipped slightly, revealing the white cuffs and whiter wrists, and the slightest breeze enveloped the three of them.
, forming a sphere, and then falling into the valley below.
Arriving at the steps in front of the shrine again, the woman's eyes seemed to be full of nostalgia and sentimentality, as she slowly walked forward with Lorraine Hill.
There was still wet rain and dew on the bluestone steps, and there were moss and small flowers in the corners and gaps. The woman lifted the clothes beside her and moved forward gradually. Everything in front of her seemed to have returned to more than ten years ago.
At that time, she was still a trainee witch in the shrine. Together with two peers, she accepted the teachings of Grandma Grotto and lived a carefree life.
Unexpectedly, fifteen years have passed in a blink of an eye, and everything has changed.
Chi Ling left without saying goodbye, and Xue Ling fell into the dark abyss and died. Among the three of them, she was the only one who still lived in this valley, and she had not met directly with the mother-in-law who taught her for more than ten years.