[Gu Jian III] The Days I Worked in Xuanyuan Hill

Inside was a mess of little things.A yellowed paper book, bamboo slips with many broken threads, a rolled-up thing that looks like a portrait, a badly used sword, dry grass... and even an animal tooth.

I looked up at Nishang: "Your anti-evil fresh-keeping function is a bit poor, right? Look, the things inside are broken like this..."

"There is a formation on it, which can keep the things inside unchanged for thousands of years. These things should be like this when they were put in." Ni Shang explained.

I tentatively believed her explanation, and started flipping through the yellowed booklet.

The first page is a line draft, which depicts a young man in brocade clothes and fine features, with baby fat on his cheeks, trying to look serious with a sullen face.

I was still wondering who this was, but the Nishang next to me was already a little surprised: "This is... the former king Cangyan? I have seen his portrait, and he looked like this when he just became the king of evil spirits."

Yo, I didn't expect the dog to look so good when it became a human.I didn't see it once until I died, which is a pity.

I started to have some interest, flipped through the pages, and found that this booklet is simply a history of the growth of the evil king.On the first page, the young king who has just ascended the throne seems to have a fanatic hobby of taking selfies. Every few years, he will take a picture of himself, some are practicing martial arts, some are riding monsters and leading troops, and some are sitting on a high throne with a majestic expression , and smiling at the camera with Xiaoxiexie in his arms... Every page can see him growing up, from a teenager, to a young man, and then to a mature middle-aged man.

I seem to have seen him grow up year by year, the baby fat on his face disappeared and stretched into sharp lines. I can see the sharp beauty that Wang Beiluo inherited from him, but the person in the painting is obviously much more serious. In the end One was a picture of a middle-aged man standing on a cliff with a scepter in his hand, and I turned back, and it was gone.

I hesitated and asked Nishang: "Don't you get old when you ward off evil spirits? Why are there no portraits of old age?"

"Yes, although we have a long lifespan, we also have birth, old age, sickness and death just like human beings." Ni Shang explained, "As for why not, it may be because the former king... didn't want you to see him getting old and frail. look."

The unexpected stab made me a little dazed, and I was stunned, so I replied vaguely and casually, and then looked down at other things.

Although the lines on the bamboo slips are scattered, they can still be read.I opened it and took a look, and confirmed that it was a word I could understand, but the traces on it were deep and shallow, as if they were not engraved all at once.

"At the age of 64, I had my first tooth replaced."

"At 130 years old, the sword I forged in Xuanyuanqiu is no longer usable. Fortunately, Tianlu City also learned some sword-making skills. This should be the last human sword."

"At the age of seven in 230, Luanyu Mountain was finally completely deserted. I picked the last element flower ginseng. You must not have found it back then, otherwise, maybe you can come back."

"..."

The words engraved on the bamboo slips were limited, and they were all very short words. I read them one by one, and then looked at the contents of the box, and my throat gradually started to feel a little congested.

The last dozen or so bamboo slips are still green in color, as fresh and tender as if they had just been cut and boiled, and the words on them are also very fresh black ink, as if they were just written yesterday.

"Time is short, and separation is getting longer.

When mountains and rivers are exhausted, all things are false.

The grace of a meal, occasionally pay tribute to.

For thousands of years, I hope you will never forget. "

My finger stopped on the last word and didn't move for a long time.

"Cang Yan... How long did he live in the end?"

Ni Shang lowered his head slightly: "The former king was injured in the war, and died in Tianlu City after more than ten years of lingering illness. At that time, he returned to the Demon Realm just 900 years ago."

1000 years... Wang Bixie's lifespan is really quite long.This is still due to injury. If I stay in the house every day, maybe I can really wait until I come back.

But he didn't wait.

There is only this box of things that have been left behind for thousands of years, which records his appearance when he misses it, and seals it up with the thousand years of time at the last moment.

In retrospect, I really can't say that Cang Yan is good.He was rescued by the way, and after he came back, he was raised as a dog with a Frisbee in his mouth. In the next few years, although he searched everywhere for rare dog food to make him grow up, it was actually just to use it.I never imagined that after my death, besides Jinyun, someone would remember me, fully extending the life that should have passed away when I died, relying on the memory of evil spirits for thousands of years.

Maybe... this is the love of dogs (wrong).

Two things in a row are like a double blow to my mind. I felt that my eye sockets were a little wet. I turned my face to look for Jin Yun to find some empathy. Sure enough, he was also staring at the things in the box, his eye sockets slightly glowing red.I took a closer look and thought it might not be empathy.Reminiscent of Jinyun's previous evaluation of evil spirits, I think he should hate evil spirits even more...

I gave up looking for empathy and turned to look at the last thing in there.A rolled up piece of rice paper looks like a painting.Looking at it, the painting is also new. If the box can really keep the contents unchanged, the age of the painting should be about the same as the last line of writing on the bamboo slips.

There are two people in the picture.

A man and a woman, all wearing the same style of clothes as 4000 years ago, maybe even more primitive than that, with animal skins on their bodies, not even a bit of linen.The necks and wrists of both men and women are decorated with simple animal teeth and turquoise. In that era, they were definitely people of high status.Both held weapons in their hands, standing side by side in front of a majestic city.

At first glance, I just thought the painting was pretty good, and it was rare that it was in color, and the faces and expressions of the two people in the painting were lifelike.

When the second glance started to feel wrong, Jinyun had already grabbed my wrist first.

"Who is this person?"

After entering the room, Jinyun spoke for the first time.He looked at Nishang sternly, with an air of never giving up until he got an answer.Nishang was overwhelmed by him, and he also leaned over to take a look, and said a little strangely: "Isn't this you?"

Yes, the woman in the painting is indeed me.

But when did I wear such clothes, and when did I stand in such a place with a man I don't know? !

I pinched the paper with one hand until it started to deform, and Nishang gradually felt that something was wrong. She looked at the painting carefully, and then at me, before carefully asking: "Could it be that... this person is not you?"

"It's not me." My voice changed a bit, "Is there something wrong with Cang Yan, imagining my face to be painted on this kind of scene, and with a strange man... No, he shouldn't be like this Boring, what is this..."

"There are words on the back." Jinyun said suddenly, he turned over the innermost part of the scroll, and sure enough there was a line of small characters written on the back of the paper——

"I happened to see this painting in Xinshang City, and copied it for you. I hope you can find the reason when you come back."

"...Brat." I gritted my teeth, "What do you mean? I'm vague. Since I know I'm coming back, I still haven't written it clearly! What's the difference between this and a broken chapter dog with only one short reference answer!"

"Maybe it's not that I don't understand clearly, it's that Cang Yan doesn't know." Jin Yun pondered.

"how do you know?"

"Look, he said that this painting is a copy. With Wang Bixie's strength and identity, he didn't get the original work, so he can only make a copy for you. It means that this painting is very important, and there may be a secret behind it. " Jinyun turned the painting back again, and pointed to the city behind the two of them, "It may be in this Xinshang City."

"Where is Xin Mall? Where can I find it?"

"Xin Shangcheng, I've heard of it." Ni Shang said suddenly.

She also came over and looked at the background of the painting carefully: "Xin Shang City is a well-known and prosperous city in the Demon Realm. It was named after it was protected by the ancestor Demon Xin Shang a long time ago. Xin Shang City was established in a very old age Lucheng is much farther back, where monsters of various races live together, and there are many unborn strongmen. The former king is just one of them."

My head hurts when I heard the words "Ancestral Demon", and I subconsciously felt that Xinshang City was not a good place.Jinyun patted my back gently with his hand, and asked in a deep voice, "I was protected by the Primordial Demon a long time ago, what about now? Where did the Primordial Demon go?"

Ni Shang shook his head: "No, I haven't been there, I just heard that after Xin Shang's death, he turned his bones into a part of the city and guarded there forever. The number of ancestor demons is rare and powerful. It is rare to hear news of new proto-demons."

Jinyun raised his head and thought for a while, then asked me seriously: "I think we can go to Xin Mall to have a look."

"No way." I subconsciously refused, "What are you going there to see? I... don't really want to know how I came back to life, anyway, the facts are all done, so it's rare to be confused."

"What if one day you suddenly disappeared again?" Jinyun said seriously, "This matter is too weird, I don't feel at ease if I don't find out."

"There's nothing to worry about. I don't know if you came back suddenly, and I didn't say..."

"Then investigate together." Jinyun patted my head, "We came back from Xinshang City, and we looked for my clues. Back then, we got together less often, and the world is so big, so it happened that we walked together."

Those indigo eyes stared at me earnestly, and suddenly I couldn't say no.

Traveling around with the people you like is really hard to say no to.I thought about the plot afterward, and after solving the life-and-death enmity between Wu Yan and Bei Luo, there should be nothing wrong, so after a few twists and turns, I agreed.

I rummaged through it again, and there were no other important items in the box.I put everything back in the box and asked, "This, can I take it?"

"Of course, this was left to you by the late king." Nishang nodded, seemingly struggling in his heart, but still couldn't help asking, "I am puzzled by one fact, this... who is this person? Why is it so similar to Lord Beiluo?"

She looked at Jinyun cautiously.But I didn't know how to explain it for a moment, so I scratched my head and said, "He... Actually, you should be quite familiar with it, your Tianlu City is very famous."

Nishang looked at me suspiciously.

"He's Jinyun, and it's your Evil Resisting Sword Manual...I said you can't change your name, heck, anyway, it's the one from 4000 years ago, who left you the swordsmanship Jinyun."

Nishang's eyes widened, and he looked up and down Jinyun in disbelief.Jinyun looked down at the box indifferently as if he hadn't heard it.

"As for the question of why he and Bei Luo resemble... I think it's better for you to ask Bei Luo."

After a long time, Nishang took a light breath: "I see. Although I don't know why this lord came back, but... thank you."

She took half a step back and bowed deeply to Jinyun.

Jinyun stepped aside and shook his head: "No, it's all the past. I'm just an ordinary person, so there's no need to mention those things."

Nishang didn't speak any more, but still looked at him intently.

...Okay, it seems that Jinyun is indeed much more popular than me in terms of popularity in Tianlu City.