"There is a hibiscus on the Tang Valley. For ten days, it stayed in the water. For nine days, it stayed on the lower branch, and for one day, it stayed on the upper branch."

Two large mulberry trees supporting each other and growing upward are called fumulus trees. They stand at the place where the sun rises in the east and carry the spirit of the sun.

The place where the sun rises in the east is the East China Sea.

The ancient axe has been responsible for protecting the sacred Fusang tree for generations. The last goddess of Xishan, in order to calm down the fire of the underworld, drew the water of the East China Sea, and the Fusang tree sank into the blue sea, never to be seen again.

"After the goddess was sacrificed, the ancient Yue tribe was punished by the gods due to the fall of the Fusang sacred tree. They fell apart and their clansmen were scattered everywhere. After thousands of years, only the Mu family has always stood firm, waiting for the return of the goddess Xishan."

Mu Shicheng opened the secret room behind the study and motioned for Shen Nanyi to follow him in.

What is enshrined in the secret room is a miniature of the hibiscus tree. It has a trunk but no branches, and the leaves are winding and curved. The whole body is glazed, green on top and yellow on the bottom. There is a big bird standing on the top of the tree, which is the spirit of the sun - the Golden Crow.

"This is..." Shen Nanyi looked excited: "The Fusang statue in the temple?"

Mushi Cheng respectfully knelt on the futon in the middle and bowed three times.

"Exactly. Back then, the great wizard was so guilty that he committed suicide to apologize, and the temple was destroyed by fire. Before the collapse, the great wizard's eldest disciple, the ancestor of our Mu family, risked his life to take the sacred tree statue out of the temple. From then on, It has been enshrined in the Mu family’s ancestral home for generations.”

The water in Shen Nanyi's eyes was slightly startled: "The ancestor of the Mu family is Tianying?"

There are two disciples in front of the great wizard, the eldest disciple is called Tianying, and the younger disciple is called Tianfu.

"Exactly. It turns out that the goddess remembers it." Mu Shicheng's eyes were slightly red, and he was slightly excited.

"After our ancestors protected the sacred tree statue, they lived anonymously in the human world, so they chose the surname Mu. Mu means longing, and they look forward to the day when the goddess and the hibiscus tree will return to heaven and earth together."

"Thanks to you, Guyue can be passed down to this day. I'm really ashamed."

"Goddess, please don't say that. That disaster was set up by someone with good intentions. Even someone like Taishan Mansion couldn't escape this fatal situation, so how can I blame you? It seems now that Fusang Shen is lucky. Enter the East China Sea, otherwise it would have been theirs.”

The East China Sea has misty blue waves, and hibiscus trees grow on the water. It reaches to the sky and connects to three springs. It is the habitat of the Golden Crow.

When the sun rises in the east, all things grow toward the sun. The spirit of the sun it carries is the foundation for the operation of the three thousand things in the world.

The mortal world is the middle between heaven and netherworld, and it is the most important foundation of the three realms.

"What the man in black robe wants is the power of the sun from the hibiscus tree." Shen Nanyi said calmly: "He wants to be the master of heaven and earth."

Mu Shicheng looked horrified: "If he gets Fusang, wouldn't the survival of the Three Realms only depend on his thoughts?"

"Yes. No wonder he can perform the long-lost ancient water condensation technique, but he is still not satisfied."

The words Jiang Yingyu once said came to Shen Nanyi's mind: "When God becomes greedy, he falls into the devil's path."

How can a mere god be as free and wanton as the master of heaven and earth?

"Then what should we do?" Mu Shicheng asked.

"It is my mission to protect the hibiscus tree, and I will not let him succeed."

Shen Nanyi knelt on the ground and worshiped in front of the fusang statue. Memories of the past emerged, making her feel as if she had returned to a temple, her thoughts unified.

Mushi Cheng stood quietly aside, just like his ancestors, silently guarding everything.

After clarifying the intention of the man in black robe, Shen Nanyi had a plan in mind.

She must find the location of the hibiscus tree before the man in black robe.

"After your soul passed away, our ancestors sent ships out to the East China Sea based on where Fusang sank, leaving behind a map to search for. But not long after, divine punishment was coming to Guyue, and the clan members wandered around, and the map was nowhere to be found."

Mu Shicheng sighed, feeling helpless: "When it's my generation's turn, they know even less."

Shen Nanyi stood up from the futon and thought for a while: "It doesn't matter. Now that I'm back, there will always be a way."

Mu Shicheng was very excited. The family mission that has carried thousands of years was fulfilled at this moment.

"The spirits of our ancestors in heaven will be very happy to know that you have returned."

Recalling the ancients, a faint smile appeared on Shen Nanyi's eyebrows:

"The great wizard is serious in speech, Tianying is like him, young and mature, but Tianfu is different, naughty and clever. When I was young, I often sneaked out to catch fish with Tianfu. Although your ancestor didn't say it, he always did it for us. Playing screens, he’s a great guy.”

She let out a long sigh and lamented that time passed so quickly and everything changed when she woke up from a dream.

"Do you know where Tianfu's descendants are?"

Mu Shicheng shook his head. A thousand years are just a snap for immortals, but the mortal world has already passed through dozens of generations, and it is difficult to find old friends.

"The notes left by our ancestors are all here, take a look."

Mu Shicheng opened the bookshelf, which was neatly filled with thousands of books, all of which were notes recorded by the past dynasties.

Every generation of the Mu family will record everything about the ancient ax in their notes and pass it down from generation to generation.

There was not much content about Patriarch Tianfu, so Mu Shicheng accurately found that one among thousands of volumes.

It was obvious that he was very familiar with these notes.

"The first thing every new head of the Mu family does when he takes over is to read these notes carefully."

He turned to one of the pages and handed it to Shen Nanyi:

"It is mentioned here that someone once saw Ancestor Tianfu in a fishing village in the East China Sea, but when the ancestor rushed there, he did not meet him. Since then, there is no record of him in all the notes."

Shen Nanyi nodded and understood very well. With the passage of generations, there may have been no descendants.

"Dad, you have worked hard for so many years."

Shen Nanyi was truly grateful for his persistence and thoughtfully took his arm and walked outside the secret room.

If the ancient Yue had not been passed down from generation to generation by the Mu family, all of this would have been lost with the passage of time.

Mu Shicheng patted her hand and said in a heavy tone:

"It's you who have worked hard. When it comes to business, you are the goddess of Xishan Mountain; but in my heart, you are my child. Seeing you shouldering such a heavy responsibility makes me feel very sad. There was Azhou before, and now, there is Azhou. It's you."

Mentioning Mu Qizhou, Shen Nanyi couldn't help but bring back memories from the past.

"By the way, Dad, how did you adopt Azhou back then?"

Mu Shicheng locked the door of the secret room, restored the bookshelf to its appearance, and motioned for her to sit down and drink tea.

"When the Mu family passed down to my generation, one day a Taoist priest came suddenly, who was Xiaozhou's senior brother, Taoist Wuliang."

He poured a cup of tea into Shen Nanyi's tea cup and said slowly:

"The Infinite Taoist Immortal Wind Dao Bone revealed the mission of the Mu family in one sentence. After being shocked, he told me that the soul of Taishan Mansion Lord had been entrusted to be reborn in the lotus root body, and asked me to raise him to adulthood. He It is said that the goddess can appear in the world only if the master of the palace is reborn."

Shen Nanyi took a sip of tea and her heart surged: "Elder brother really does his best for us."

"Yes! Taoist Wuliang has a kind heart and brought me timely rain. At that time, Wan Yun and I had been married for many years but still had no children. I was depressed. Xiaozhou became my first child, which solved the problem. We’ve had heart problems for many years. You’ve never seen him in his infancy, he’s really cute, he looks like a fairy boy from a New Year’s painting. I have some photos here.”

Mu Shicheng took out several old photo albums from the bookshelf, almost all of which were photos of Mu Qizhou's childhood.

There is a photo of him lying in his crib chewing his feet, which is really cute.

Shen Nanyi's eyebrows were filled with smiles:

"Dad, you have raised Azhou so well. You must have put a lot of thought into it."

Mu Shicheng rolled his eyes and denied it repeatedly: "Hey, he has been very sensible since he was a child, and he has never let me worry about him at all. I am good to him, not entirely because he is the Lord of Taishan Mansion, but because he is a real person. He is my son. Your mother is even more so. She loves him to the core. Sometimes I even think that if there is no chance for him to regain his spiritual consciousness, then he will be the son of my Mu family. ”

"Azhou also cares about you. He will definitely come back."

After Mu Qizhou committed suicide, Su Wanyun fell ill and almost couldn't survive it.

"I don't know if it's because I'm too old to be dazzled. I couldn't sleep in the middle of the night the day before yesterday and I was walking in the garden. I seemed to see Xiaozhou in a trance."

Shen Nanyi shook her hand and spilled a few drops of tea, which soaked into the wooden table: "Did you see him?!"

"Am I not dazzled?" Mu Shicheng was a little unsure: "He smiled at me and called me dad. I was very excited at the time, but in the blink of an eye, he disappeared."

Ana Shen was so excited that her heart almost jumped out of her throat.

Not only did she see it, but Mu Shicheng also saw him.

He is really coming back!

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