The word "moon" had always existed in this world, such as the Yuelun Kingdom, the famous laurel in the Yuelun Kingdom, and the white color of the moon, which was derived from the color of the laurel petals. However, the word "moon" in this world had no specific meaning. It was as vague as light and muddy.
Of course, the Headmaster was not referring to the color of the moon, because he was asking about the moon. Because of this question, Ning Que suddenly became nervous. According to his usual style, he would definitely try his best to play dumb at this moment. However, if he played dumb now, he would really be a fool.
Because the Headmaster had already pointed out that he was a person who was born with knowledge.
Ning Que lowered his head and felt the cold sweat flowing down his back, gradually wetting his clothes. After a long silence, he said in a trembling voice, "The sun and the moon rotate, and light and darkness are opposite. I think that the moon might be something that corresponds to the sun. The sun appears in the day, and the moon appears in the night."
The Headmaster said, "Be more specific."
Ning Que looked at the cliff in front of him, at the flowing clouds under the starlight, and fell into a long silence again. Then he said, "It might be … a huge stone ball floating in the night sky. Because it can reflect the light of the sun, it appears very bright at night."
He could not explain why he could describe the moon that did not exist in this world.
The Headmaster looked at him and smiled. He helped him to give an explanation that might not be reasonable, but at least it was reasonable. "It seems that what you saw in your dream was very interesting."
Hearing the word "dream", Ning Que looked up at the Headmaster who was standing by the cliff. He looked at the Headmaster's clothes dancing in the night wind, and vaguely seemed to catch something.
"This idea is indeed very interesting."
The Headmaster turned to look at the night sky and said admiringly, "The eternal night always needs some light."
"Everything in the world corresponds to each other. If the sun appears in the day, it is not bad to have a corresponding moon. But if there is a moon, where would it be? If the moon reflects the light of the sun as you said, doesn't that mean that the sun is also in our world at night, but we can't see it? "
"Then where is the sun at night? Is it really like when the west moves and the mountains set, falling below our feet, and then rising again in the morning? "
"Doesn't that mean the sun is revolving around our world? But the world we live in is a flat and open land, and the edge is an endless abyss. Why did I wait for more than ten days, but I didn't see the sun set into the abyss, and it just disappeared so suddenly? "
The Headmaster looked at the night sky with his hands behind his back and murmured to himself. He was not talking to Ning Que, but to himself, who had been searching for the answer for countless years.
After a while, he looked at Chang 'an City in the distant wilderness and said with a frown, "There are still many places that are impassable. If this world were a ball, it would be connected."
People in the secular world were used to the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. They were used to being shrouded in the radiance of Haotian day after day, just like they were used to the breakfast stalls on the street and the moss on the edge of the well. They never had any questions about these things, let alone wondered why these things existed.
But the Headmaster was not a person of the secular world. He needed to think.
Few people in the world could understand what he was mumbling to himself. Those who heard it would even think that the Headmaster was a crazy old man.
Ning Que understood some of it. He was a little confused, but then he admired the Headmaster.
The Headmaster obviously had no knowledge of astronomy. He was about to touch the truth of the world just by following Ning Que's simple explanation. However, the truth did not belong to this world, but another world. He did not know that the other world existed in the distant past, but in the future.
"I have looked at this night sky for many years."
The Headmaster pointed at the high and dark sky above the cliff and the stars hanging in the sky. He said, "Whether it was many years ago or many years later, the stars have always stayed in their original positions and have not changed at all. This means that the relative positions of the earth and the sky are fixed. This stability is filled with a classical and solemn eternal beauty. But it is a little boring after looking at it for a long time."
Ning Que looked at the night sky along his teacher's arm. He did not know what the Headmaster was trying to say.
"But since the beginning of the Tianqi era, the stars in the night sky have been getting dimmer day by day. Mortals can't see the difference, but I know they are getting dimmer."
The Headmaster said, "There was one time when the darkening process was seen by the officials of the Imperial Astronomer. That was why there was the comment 'the stars are covered by the night sky, and the country will not be peaceful'."
Ning Que knew that it was this comment from the Imperial Astronomer that caused the Tang Empire to fall into a dispute. It indirectly caused Lee Yu to marry into the grassland a few years later. However, he only knew that the comment was true after hearing the Headmaster's words today. At least the first half of the sentence was true. It turned out that the stars in the night sky were really getting dimmer!
"How could it be a matter of the country not being peaceful?"
The Headmaster laughed.
Ning Que's mood was slightly relaxed. He did not expect the Headmaster to continue, "If the whole world has entered the eternal night, how could the Tang Empire not be the only country that is not peaceful?"
Thinking of the sentences in the "Ming" Handscroll that were similar to prophecy and some legends, Ning Que could not control the nervousness and fear in his heart. He asked, "Teacher, is there really an Underworld Invasion?"
The Headmaster said, "The" Ming "Handscroll of the Tomes of Arcane foretold the arrival of the night. There are also related legends in the West-Hill Teachings and the ancient volumes of the Buddhism Sect. Because of these prophecies and legends, many wise men have thought about it for countless years. A thousand years ago, the Divine Priest of Light went to the Wilderness to preach, but he founded the Devil's Doctrine. The Buddhism Sect's temples stayed in the deep mountains and did not move. It is probably related to this. As for whether the legends are true or not, no one knows."
Ning Que asked, "Teacher, you don't know either?"
"I have said that there is no omniscient person in the world. Even those who are born with knowledge can only know the things that they have seen in their dreams. If they have not seen it, they still don't know."
Ning Que did not speak.
The Headmaster looked at the night sky above his head. After a moment of silence, he said, "In the past two years, your Eldest Brother and I have traveled in the world. We went to the Cold Region of the Far North and found that the night there has obviously become much longer. The Hot Sea has even gradually become cold. That is why the Desolate was forced to break the promise of a thousand years and take the risk to return to the south."
Ning Que had heard of the legend of the Underworld. Most people in the market knew about this legend. However, a legend was a legend after all. In addition, the West-Hill Divine Palace had always been indifferent to this kind of legend, so the legend became increasingly illusory.
However, the Headmaster himself was a legendary figure. When the legend of the Underworld came out of his solemn mouth, and there seemed to be some vague evidence, then the legend was probably true.
Ning Que felt cold, and the back of his wet clothes seemed to be frozen.
"No one noticed that even the winter in Chang 'an last year was colder than the year before. Of course, this may be an accident. Until now, I still think that the Underworld Invasion is only a story used to scare children. Because no one has discovered the Underworld, including me."
The Headmaster looked at Ning Que's slightly pale face and comforted him, "And even if the eternal night comes, according to the records in the" Ming "Handscroll and the ancient Buddhism Sect volumes, it can't be a very short process. It must be extremely long. Maybe a hundred years, a thousand years, or even ten thousand years. What does it have to do with people like us?"
Ning Que said sadly, "Headmaster is lying again. If you really don't believe in the story of the Underworld Invasion, why would you look for the Underworld everywhere? And why would it take ten thousand years?"
"Then tell me, where is the Underworld?"
The Headmaster looked at Ning Que with a smile. His smile seemed to hide an incomparably rich meaning. He asked, "Or, in your dreams, which direction is the Underworld in the world?"
Ning Que felt the Headmaster's gaze and thought of the bizarre story of his own life by the Great Divine Priest of Light. The cold sweat on his clothes instantly disappeared without a trace.
Was he really the Son of Yama?
Did the Headmaster already know that he was the Son of Yama?
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Ning Que couldn't accept this because he didn't know what Yama was, and he clearly knew where he came from. If this was true and he was really the legendary Son of Yama, then the bloody storm that the West-Hill Divine Palace set off in Chang 'an back then seemed to have some kind of reason. And he hated this kind of reason, even if it was unreasonable.
Looking at his anxious expression, the Headmaster smiled and said, "When people think, Haotian always laughs. If the Underworld really exists and will invade the human world, that is something that the Supreme Way of Heaven needs to consider and is qualified to consider. As a child, what can you do? What can you change? If you can't do anything, then what's the point of you being so painful and anxious? "
Ning Que didn't agree with the Headmaster's attitude. Thinking of the scene of Eldest Brother understanding the Tao in the morning and entering the Tao in the evening, he thought that it was okay for him to understand the Tao in the morning and die in the evening. Even if he couldn't change the final ending of the world and might not even see it, he could live happily with Sangsang in the human world until his hair turned white. But anyone who could think would always want to know what was the end of time and why all this happened.
However, since the Headmaster didn't want to discuss this matter anymore, especially with him, no matter how he asked, he wouldn't say a word.
Ning Que lowered his head and kept silent for a long time. Suddenly, he raised his head and looked at the Headmaster. He asked seriously, "Then teacher, please tell me how Youngest Uncle died."
Then he added, "This matter is meaningful to me."
He knew that this matter was indeed meaningful to Ning Que because he was now walking on the path that Youngest Uncle had walked and he wanted to change the ending of this story.
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(This is the first chapter. The second chapter will come out before 11: 30.) (To be continued. If you like this work, please come to Qidian.Com to vote for me. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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