Penglai delusion

It's snowing harder outside.

Jin Ning quickened her pace, walked through the vestibule, pushed open the hall door, took off her windbreaker, and shook the snow off the door.

Such a huge Buxue Palace, together with the entire vast cliff, was sealed in the center of the hail snow formation, and so far she was the only servant, so it could be called a real cold palace.

Jin Ning walked into the hall.

The high, wide and deep nave is different from the openness of the outer hall. It is actually composed of several book walls.There is only one semi-circular window opening, facing the cloud bank, far away from the abyss, facing the east to pretend to be in the state of sunrise.

At this time, the only light in the hall was peeking out from the closed window.

Jiang Tan sat on the window sill, surrounded by a little cold candlelight, holding a snowflake in a daze.

"The eldest son." Jin Ning said, "Look."

Looking sideways, Jiang Tan saw a little snow fox trembling in her arms, and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong with it?"

Jin Ning smiled a little embarrassedly, "The eldest son put away the coercion on his body, this cub can't bear it."

She thought, this child is only four years old now, but the inherent coercion is very powerful.

This is what Jin Ning taught.Jiang Tan learned well.He held his palm, opened it again, and stepped forward to take the snow fox.

Xuehu was still shaking, shaking so much that he was about to shake along with him.

Jiang Tan glanced at Xuehu, then at Jin Ning, "I've given up the coercion."

Jin Ning nodded, "Zongzi, wait a little longer."

Jiang Tan hugged the snow fox and sat back to the window, stroking its head.

Jin Ning sighed.After so many years, Jiang Tan managed to grow up, but he has been imprisoned in this Snow Palace until now, and has never stepped out of Kunlun.

"Zongzi, this is your fox. Let's name it."

"Mine." Jiang Tan's voice was astonished, and heartfelt joy flowed out of his glazed eyes.

He silently looked at the little snow fox, and thought for a while, "Call it Snowball. When Jin Ning brought it here, it was so round that I thought it was a snowball."

Jin Ning nodded.

Xueqiu had just arrived, and after learning to walk tremblingly while biting the corner of Jiang Tan's clothes, he never dared to get too close to him.Later, he was able to run and jump, and he liked to smash the snowmen he built, and he was also keen on falling onions in the snow.

Jin Ning explained, "It's hunting."

Jiang Tan was very surprised, "Didn't we feed it?"

Jin Ning laughed, "Zongzi, the nature of the monster race is hunting. The nature cannot be worn away."

Jiang Tan only felt that Xueqiu was in pain.Every time he jumped high, he would crash headfirst into the snow with a bang, wagging only one tail.He wanted to pull it out like a carrot.

It was only later that Jiang Tan found out that what was throbbing quietly in the field were all Jin Ning's spiritual creations.Specially designed for snowball practice claws.In fact, this mountain has no real prey for it to use.

After Snowball's fur became smoother, he gradually became familiar with this place.It sleeps during the day and makes noise late at night.Jiang Tan followed suit for a few nights, and couldn't close his eyes at night.

He hugged the pillow and quilt, walked from the inner hall to the middle hall, and walked to the short couch behind the flower trellis, "Jin Ning, I can't sleep."

Jin Ning got up when she heard the words, and opened the velvet curtain, "It's enough for the eldest son to call out, I can hear you."

She got out of bed, hugged Jiangtan and the quilt in her arms, put them back into the embroidered tent in the inner hall, and sat against Luo Zhu again, stroking the child's moon-like hair while listening to him ask, "Xue When will the ball sleep with me?"

"When the eldest son is asleep, he can also restrain the coercion, and regard it as a matter of breathing freely. Xueqiu'er can come."

Jiang Tan nodded and closed his eyes obediently.

Jin Ning pondered with slow eyes, and wanted to use these weak snow foxes whose spiritual wisdom had not yet been developed as the whetstone of Jiangtan, and now it seemed that she had chosen the right one.

At that time, Jiang Tan didn't know that this little snow fox was not the only living creature that could enter the palace.He handles it carefully for fear of breaking it.

He didn't know many people well, and Jin Ning was the only one in total.Now that there is an extra snowball, he cherishes it very much.

Not long after that, the five-year-old Jiang Tan saw Jin Ning's story in Jiang Duo's storybook.

"Beside the rest seat, there used to be a girl from the Shrike Jin family, A Ning, who was beautiful and handsome, and a man of extraordinary bravery. Unfortunately, she fell in the last battle. After the war, the corpse was no longer there, and the clothes were buried in her empty arms. Later, I heard that she had an adventure. I was a one at first. Rescued by a doctor, they got married and lived at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain. Yu Fu invited him to Kunlun, but promised him a high position and rich salary, but he was rejected. Yu sighed and admired his nature, but said: Kunlun has no A Ning, it is With Penglai on our shoulders, there is no regret for Amu."

Jiang Tan thought the name looked familiar, so he held the scroll and asked, "Jin Ning, is this you?"

Jin Ning looked at the passage for a while, remained silent for a while, and then faded off her aging appearance, revealing the appearance of a heroic woman.

Jiang Tan stared at her blankly.

"Eldest son, I was originally the leader of Lord Fang Xun, the head of the Shrike clan known as the butcher. The person I married was named Cao Zhen, who was my life-saving benefactor. When I opened my eyes again, I knew that I was in love with you." For him. My wish was for thousands of miles of mountains and rivers before, but after that it is nothing more than fireworks in the world."

Jiang Tan was a little puzzled, "Since you have come back, why do you still maintain that appearance?"

"Eldest son, for us, the lifespan of the human race is nothing more than a night of dew. But the mayfly still has its beauty when it lives and dies. I fall in love with the mayfly, and that is the most splendid moment in my life. I am willing to do this Remember."

Jiang Tan suddenly said, "Jin Ning was originally married to a human race, no wonder Zu Jun felt so sorry."

"My son, although there is a world of difference between monsters and humans. But race has never been an excuse to love each other. The blue bird lineage has been passed down to this day, and since Lord Fangxun, they are all mixed blood of monsters. The crystallization of the blood of the two races , This is a proof of love that breaks through barriers."

Jiang Tan nodded with a half understanding.

Jin Ning couldn't help sighing, thinking that although Jiang Tan was also of mixed blood, he was afraid that he was born out of hatred.

When these things happened, although she was not in Kunlun, Jiang Shan personally told them after she came back.

When she first worshiped Luoxiao, Jin Ning asked herself to go to Moon Valley to be a tomb keeper.

She grew up in the Kunlun lineage, and when she returned home this time, she knew that her life was coming to an end, so she wanted to be buried with her long-gone clansmen.Afterwards, although he agreed to raise Jiangtan, he realized that the snow lotus bestowed by Jiang Shan could not cure the chronic diseases in his body, so he knew that he might not be able to stay with Jiangtan for a long time.

But when she explained it, Jiang Shan was silent.

At that time, Jiang Shan could not find a more suitable person than Jin Ning.Later, it was not found either.

Jin Ning had a premonition that before she was about to die, she picked a suitable day, and as far as she knew, she told him everything about Jiang Tan's life experience without reservation.

Probably because she felt that once she died, no one would talk to Jiang Tan about this kind of thing again.So I said it all.

"Zongzi, do you still remember the story about the first demon king that I told you?"

"Ah."

"Eldest son, you have the same sign as that one."

Jin Ning caught a glimpse of herself sighing in those eyes that were as clear as ice.

"According to the legend, Yan Xi, the demon king, was transformed from the soul of an immortal. He came with the wind and took snow as his body. Therefore, his hair and pupils are white. It's just that none of his descendants inherit his characteristics."

"Only you, you are the only one."

"So, when I see you, my lord will think of your biological mother, Ah Qing."

"Your eyebrows and eyes are also very similar to Ah Qing, so you shouldn't be a mortal."

As Jin Ning said, she took out a dagger and the Holy Ring of the Demon King.

"This knife is called Xingying, and it was their token of love. Later, it became a sharp knife that stabbed you in the heart."

"It was only then that everyone knew that Ah Qing was the widowed daughter of the Demon King's family. Because the Snow Demon was born capable of suppressing ghost spirits, during the Battle of the East China Sea, Lord Fang Xun sent her mother, the Demon King Yan Yi, to feed her. It was given to the Ghost King. Ah Qing came here before the seal of the Three Realms was completed, and has been waiting for an opportunity to take revenge. It was originally a long-term plan, but I didn’t expect that the whole plan would be disrupted because of you.”

"When you were born, your whole body was pure white like jade, with a little ice flower on your forehead, which directly showed the blood of the demon king. If the demon race is a mixed blood, the shape of the original body will be determined by the strongest blood. The blood of the snow demon in your body is for you. Inherited by the immortal family, it was supposed to sting on the side of Qianmu, but for some reason, after combining with the blue bird, it overwhelmed the oldest sun and moon dual veins and took the dominant position. Therefore, you are not only different from other monsters in appearance, but also connected Zhongbi's blood also turned red."

"Ah Qing immediately melted the spiritual veins in your body, cast a curse on the lord, and threatened to kill you, cutting off the lord's way out. In the end, Lu Zuo made a surprise victory, and he did his best to protect the lord. But even though you were saved However, Ah Qing fell into the Sun Valley and was annihilated in ashes."

"Zongzi, you have been weak since you were young, and your spirit veins have stagnated. Not only because Ah Qing moved your Qianmu veins to cast down the curse, but also because Luo Sizhu sought the solution to the curse for the Lord, and tried to reverse your spirit many times. In the end, although the evil curse was successfully broken, it still caused damage to your heart. When your heart stopped beating, you inadvertently froze yourself. It was not until a few years ago, shortly after I first arrived in Kunlun, that the ice that froze you melted So, every time the Lord sees you, I feel uncomfortable and guilty, angry and disappointed."

"My lord knows that I shouldn't have treated you like this. You are the eldest son of the lord, or maybe his only child. If it wasn't for Ah Qing's betrayal, the lord would probably never marry another woman. After so many years, The Lord has never forgotten Ah Qing. He still likes Ah Qing the most in his heart. But Ah Qing, maybe no one likes her."

Yeah?Jiang Tan thought, it turns out that I have been locked up here all this time because neither my father nor my concubine like me.

Jin Ning looked at Jiang Tan's gloomy eyes, and only softened his voice and said, "But Zongzi, even if you are not liked by others, you don't need to care. This world is very big, and there are thousands of people. There are only so many people who will like you." A few. Maybe not even a few. Or even none. It doesn't matter who you are if you're liked."

Jiang Tan looked at her.

"Jin Ning, do you like me?"

"I like you, eldest son. Xueqiuer likes you too."

The little boy nodded.

Jin Ning began to teach him.

"Not being liked is not your fault. Because liking has never been justified, and there is no right or wrong. This is the purest feeling, but it is often the most impure and cannot be forced."

Jiang Tan remembered.

"I like Jin Ning, and I also like Xueqiu. As long as you are here, I will be very happy."

Jin Ning sighed lightly.

"But eldest son, maybe I will die soon. There will be someone to accompany you in the future. Whether that person likes you or not, don't be sad."

"Jin Ning." Jiang Tan was very sad, "Can you not die."

At the age of seven, he had only read about the eight hardships of life in books before, and hadn't seen the real parting of life and death, but he vaguely guessed that he might never see Jin Ning again.

"Eldest son, death and life are one. Where there is life, there must be death. But don't be afraid, after death there is new life. After my soul enters the ruins, I wish to turn into all things. Every creature you see from now on, It could all be a part of who I am."

Jin Ning knew that after she left, Jiang Tan might really be the only one left in the Snow Palace.He doesn't know how long he will live here, will he go crazy?

"I'm sorry, eldest son, I'm not here, you may have to stay alone for a long time."

Jin Ning, who had been bathed in blood for half her life, walked peacefully.She died in her sleep, and was only discovered by Jiang Tan at dawn.