On the Importance of Chinese Characters

After talking with Yangming, Zhuang Yunzhou returned to his practice room.As night fell, he did not light the Yuanli Lamp, and the moonlight shone in through the window, casting a light shadow behind him.He stood by the window for a long time, and suddenly said in the silence: "Grandpa Zuyuan, are you there?"

There was silence in the training room, without any echo.Only tiny ripples like water ripples appeared in an invisible void behind him.

After waiting for a while, Zhuang Yunzhou, who did not receive any form of response, evoked a self-deprecating smile, and whispered to himself: "It seems that Grandpa Zu Yuan really hates me."

The void that had been rippling froze for a moment after his words, and then the water rippled more rapidly and violently. The space fluctuations that were pushed away one after another showed the owner's conflicted mentality, but until the end, the void Even if the existence in it hesitated again and again, it never showed up.

Zhuang Yunzhou lowered his eyes and stood there for a while, then walked slowly and sat down beside the white jade bed, looked at the void in front of him, stretched out his slender fingers, and began to write Chinese characters carefully stroke by stroke in midair, first the oracle bone inscription 'yu' character, then the character 'Yu' in Xiaozhuan script, and then the character 'Yu' in regular script...

One stroke at a time, the bright yellow source force shone in the dark night, Zhuang Yunzhou wrote slowly and solemnly, as if he was performing some important ceremony.The ancient aura that had been sleeping for a long time on Shenshan in the virtual sea revealed a breath, as if something was slowly waking up.

The ripples in the void trembled more violently, the existence seemed to be in a tug-of-war with something, and the fluctuation was so large that Zhuang Yunzhou could clearly sense that there was something else in this space.

Spiritual thoughts sprang out suddenly, and the source power that jumped at the fingertips was taken back into the body, and the Chinese characters floating in mid-air slowly dissipated.The existence in the void was captured by the divine sense. After realizing the existence of Zhuang Yunzhou's divine sense, the thing froze for an instant, and the whole space instantly returned to calm, pretending that the previous fluctuations were Zhuang Yunzhou's illusion.

Zhuang Yunzhou couldn't laugh or cry because of it: "Grandpa Zuyuan, don't you think that you are acting like you are now, and you are trying to hide it?"

The existence in the void tried to calmly continue to pretend that I was not here.

Zhuang Yunzhou did not give up: "I just want to ask some questions, can I ask Grandpa Zuyuan to come out and see him?"

I'm not here, I'm not here, I'm not here...

"I'm not here."

A clear boyish voice suddenly appeared in the silent space.

"..." This is Zhuang Yunzhou.

"..." This is the origin of the word 'Yu'.

One of the two stands on the ground, the other hides in the void, looking at each other silently.

After a long while, the young man said cautiously: "Actually, it was an illusion just now. You didn't hear anything just now, and I wasn't here either."

"I heard it." Zhuang Yunzhou pressed his forehead, and suddenly had some unspeakable doubts about the word 'Grandpa Zuyuan', and the response seemed to be blurted out accidentally in his heart.

Is this the Zuyuan that has existed for 3 years, and the word 'Yu' that has blessed Baopu Palace for 6000 years?Zhuang Yunzhou sighed in his heart, and bowed to Kongkong: "Please come out, Your Excellency Zuyuan."

The boy Yin knew that he had done something stupid and couldn't pretend anymore, so he had to honestly say, "I can't see you."

"Why?" Zhuang Yunzhou was suddenly puzzled.

"Because once I see you, I won't be able to restrain my instinct and go back to the Zishi Mountain in your imaginary sea." When the word 'Yu' Zuyuan said the word Zishishan, his tone was full of nostalgia and nostalgia.

Zhuang Yunzhou thought of Zuyuan for 'medicine' and Zuyuan for 'ku', and was silent for a while, then changed the Lingzu language back to Chinese: "Is the word Shishan the little stone that the Great Sage Cangjie picked up casually when he created Chinese characters? ?”

The long-lost local accent and the familiar and revered name made the existence in the void tremble again. It took Zu Yuan a while to restrain his emotions, and it took a long time for him to reply in Chinese with a trill: "Yes."

"Back then, the great sage Cangjie made great merits and virtues for the creation of characters, and became holy immediately. Because the first Chinese character was carved out of a character stone, when the great sage Cangjie was sanctified, the character stone shared the merits and virtues. Record the Chinese characters born between heaven and earth. After the great sage traveled all over the world, the character stone was enshrined by the descendants of the sage, and gradually developed spiritual wisdom. But for some reason, the sacrifice was suddenly interrupted one day, the altar was sealed, and the newborn stone spirit could not be nourished. fell into a deep sleep."

"Then what happened later?" Zhuang Yunzhou asked.

"Later, you and those aliens reopened the altar, offered sacrifices, the sacrifice was restarted, and Shi Ling woke up again." Zu Yuan answered every question, saying in detail, "You are the only one who survived to the stone spirit. The Chinese people in front of the spirit. Shi Ling just woke up and needs enough sacrifices..."

"So, those mercenaries who died suddenly were Shi Ling enjoying the sacrifice." Zhuang Yunzhou followed Zu Yuan's words, and finally understood what happened to those mercenaries who died suddenly.

"Yes. But what Shi Ling didn't expect was that those alien races also had strange powers. In order to protect your life, Shi Ling could only open the space and prepare to send you away, but he didn't want to be hit by that strange power halfway , the teleportation went wrong, hit the void storm, the stone spirit was injured, all the Chinese characters were stripped from the word stone, and fell into the Tianze world 3 years ago, and then merged with the local mysterious species to form the current ancestor. .”

Everything fits right.Zhuang Yunzhou closed his eyes and finally got the missing piece in his memory.

The sacrificial utensils that appeared on the altar at the beginning were in the style of the Qin Dynasty, so the sacrifice should have been broken in the Qin Dynasty.And the sleeping Shi Ling didn't know the existence of thermal weapons.So, when there was no defense, the force of the bomb explosion broke the stable transmission channel.In the void storm, the Chinese characters on the Zishi broke away from the Zishi itself, and entered the Tianze Realm first, while myself and the Zishi drifted to the present 3 years later.

So, since Shi Ling can open the space channel, does it mean that as long as he finds Shi Ling, he can find his way home?

The heartbeat gradually increased, Zhuang Yunzhou held his breath, and finally asked: "So, is Shi Ling sleeping in Zishi Mountain because of his serious injuries?"

Zu Yuan hesitated for a while before answering: "Yes, and no."

"...?" Zhuang Yunzhou was puzzled: "How to say?"

"Shi Ling is indeed sleeping in Zishi Mountain, but it is not a complete Shi Ling. The void storm shattered his spirit body, causing his spirit body to be broken into many pieces."

It was broken into many pieces, big and small... Zhuang Yunzhou murmured as if he was hit hard, "In this case, can Shi Ling wake up?"

This time Zuyuan paused for a long time before answering: "Yes."

Zhuang Yunzhou's eyes suddenly brightened: "Then what should be done to make Shi Ling sober?"

Zu Yuan sighed, and replied: "Go and collect the fragments of the spirit body. After the spirit body is half repaired, the stone spirit will wake up by itself."

"Spiritual body fragments..." Zhuang Yunzhou suddenly remembered the images that suddenly appeared in his mind when the ancestor of the word 'ku' returned, and a thought broke into his mind unexpectedly.

'Some ancestors in this world are born with spirits. '

'I can't see you, I can't restrain my instinct when I see you, and I will return to Zishishan. '

He opened his mouth and asked suspiciously: "...Are you one of Shi Ling's spirit body fragments?"

The space suddenly became quiet, and the air seemed to freeze.Zhuang Yunzhou clenched his fists, silently waiting for the answer.

"……Yes."

A single word made Zhuang Yunzhou's heart beat violently, and then fell steadily. He simply didn't know how to describe his mood.The fear of coming to a strange world and the anxiety about the future disappeared with this one word—it was like clearing away the fog of the future and finding the way to go in the future.

"All the ancestors who gave birth to spiritual wisdom have fragments of the spirit body of stone spirits." Zuyuan smiled bitterly, "So, we can't resist Zishishan's call at all."

"But you don't want to go back." Zhuang Yunzhou woke up from the shock of knowing the truth, and suddenly a little vigilance rose from the bottom of his heart. The ancestors in this world already have their own spiritual wisdom. Are they willing to lose their independence like this, Be the nourishment of others?

Although Zuyuan with the word 'Yu' sometimes does some stupid things, it doesn't mean that he has lived in vain all these years. He can see Zhuang Yunzhou's worries at a glance, and he doesn't mind, but he is a little relieved: "You are vigilant. Xin, this is very good, maybe some ancestors are reluctant to live freely. But that is not me, on the contrary, for me, Zishishan is my home, if I can, I wish I could go back immediately."

"Then you don't want to see me now, is it because of Baopu Palace?" Zhuang Yunzhou asked again.

"Yeah." The voice of Zuyuan with the word 'Yu' was full of emotion, "As a fragment of a spirit body, I was in a daze when I fell into the Tianze Realm earlier, and it was 6000 years ago when I fully woke up. That year I I met Xiao Anran, and we took an adventure together in the Tianze Realm. He taught me a lot. Later, because he lamented that the source art of the spirit race was gradually declining, he founded Baopu Palace here, determined to defend the inheritance of the source art of the spirit race. .And I promised that after his death, he would guard Baopu Palace for him."

"I watched it develop from a small sect with only a dozen people to today's disciples everywhere. I even chose the name 'Baopu Palace' so that Xiao Anran's successors could remember his original intention of establishing the palace. , to pass down the civilization of Origin Technique from generation to generation."

"I can't miss my appointment."

Zhuang Yunzhou was left silent by Zuyuan's word for 'Yu', and all his contradictory actions were explained.A wanderer who is eager to return home has kept the covenant of a gentleman for 6000 years, how can he bear to criticize it, and how can he have the heart to force it?

Two difficult choices.

In the end, Zhuang Yunzhou just said: "Then can you give me an origin technique? I need it very much now."

"...Okay." As soon as this matter was mentioned, Zu Yuan's voice sounded very reluctant.

At this time, Zhuang Yunzhou was full of deep admiration for the origin of the character 'Yu', and thought it had some unspeakable hidden meaning, so he asked, "Is it difficult?"

Zu Yuan immediately said: "It's very embarrassing. I can't go back even if I want to go back. How can the little things that are distributed be able to take the lead?"

"..."

Is it because of this childish reason that I was not allowed to rub the fourth generation of space origin technique? !Zhuang Yunzhou instantly felt that the respect he had just raised for Zuyuan of the word 'Yu' was faltering at this moment.

"Your reason is really...sufficient." Zhuang Yunzhou couldn't help but sarcastically.