Lily's first memory of this life began in a cold winter with ice and snow everywhere.
She could no longer remember the name of that place, nor could she remember the location of that forest. She could not even remember which country she was in or what the person who had adopted her looked like. She only remembered that she woke up next to a hut deep in the forest, and it was very cold that year.
In the cold winter, the snow covered the mountains, and the white snow bent the branches of the century-old trees. The tracks of sleds and horses on the snow were blurred by the night north wind. She was lying in a kennel covered with felt blankets and straw mats, and she was woken up by a cold wind.
Beside him was a litter of furry puppies that were wriggling around.
In the first few thoughts of Lily's life, she also knew that the puppies were her brothers and sisters. But soon, these vague thoughts disappeared as her spiritual world continued to reshape. Her "personality" completely expelled the "animal" part within a few seconds after she opened her eyes for the first time. Many years after that, she firmly believed that she was a human, and then she firmly believed that she was a werewolf, but she could not remember lying on the same blanket with a group of furry little huskies.
An old couple, who were the owners of the hut in the forest, were awakened by the commotion of the dogs. They found a little girl climbing out of the doghouse. They were shocked and then realized that this was a gift from God.
Lily's thoughts drifted back to those memories that she was about to forget.
She rarely mentioned it to others. Her early memory was actually as bad as Vivian's. The cold and remote village and the endless forest outside the village were always a vague image in her mind. When she was very young, her spiritual world was fragile and unstable, as if it was undergoing continuous transformation and reconstruction. Frequent fainting, amnesia, and slow response to external stimuli even made the old couple think that she was a mentally disabled child. They thought that was why she was "abandoned." Lily could not speak until she was five years old, and until she was nearly ten years old, she still could not communicate well with other children in the village. She usually spent more time with the sled dogs. Her adoptive parents lived in the forest a little away from the village. A large group of sled dogs was an important property of the family. Lily spent far more time with these dogs than with other people.
As she tried to huddle with the dogs, to pull the sledge ropes around herself, her adoptive parents finally realized that the child's eccentricity did not seem to be intellectual. They remembered the husky that had disappeared from the kennels in those early years.
And when Lily accidentally ran into the forest and got lost, she grew ears and a tail. She also realized that she was different from ordinary people.
Under the guidance of Ymir, Lily's memory continued to drift. She saw herself fighting with the beasts in the forest, saw herself slowly learning to communicate with people and hide her uniqueness, saw the villagers were frightened by her youthful appearance and powerful strength, and saw herself leaving the village to wander far away. She saw the small town on the border of Russia, saw the smoke of the houses in Heilongjiang, saw the war, saw the chaos, saw the warlords, saw the gentry, saw a country in turmoil, saw its imperial city collapse, saw its new city rise …
Ymir's voice suddenly sounded in her mind. "… Little girl, you are going in the wrong direction. Not modern, I want you to look forward!"
Lily was stunned and then realized what she was doing. She quickly stopped her wandering thoughts and went back to the beginning of this life.
On that cold winter morning, in the small kennel, her spirit was led by Ymir to continue to go back in time and directly jumped over the barrier of the beginning of this life. Lily suddenly felt very relaxed. She found that she had lost her body and was floating over the boundless ice field of Siberia.
Time continued to go back in time. She floated over Siberia, over the Arctic Circle, and drifted in the world shrouded in aurora. Watching the ice crystal fortress in the cold wind, some intermittent memories finally emerged.
"… There is a curse. The name of Vivian has been erased. The sword must be afraid of her. I probably won't live long, but Vivian will definitely come back one day. I want to leave something behind. "
"It's over, it's all over. We should have listened to her advice … The sword is cursed, it's all over …"
"… It's dangerous for you to do this! I think this sword is not a good thing. I feel upset just looking at it. There are so many good things in this ruin. Why do you have to be interested in a strange sword … "
"There are treasures everywhere here! Patriarch, this is a large group of ruins! Not only can we spend the winter here, but we can also settle here permanently! Food is a problem, but we can transport it from the outside! At least it's safe here … "
Lily's memory shuttled back and forth between the voices. She could tell that these words were spoken by different people at different times, and they were arranged in reverse order along the timeline.
Finally, her thoughts went back to the original point that Ymir knew, which was the earliest memory that Ymir could bring her to. It was a cold morning, as cold as the morning when she was' born 'as' werewolf Lily 'in the kennel.
Vivian? Ancestor was sitting in front of her. The great vampire was holding a bowl of hot vegetable soup in his hand, and his face was full of joy. "The frost giants are coming again? You can't beat them … Oh yes, I know a place. It's very safe and it's not cold! You can go there for the winter! I call it Coldpath. I accidentally found it when I was chasing the light in the sky a while ago … "
With a crisp sound like glass breaking, the runes in the secret chamber fell. Ymir and Lily woke up from their trance almost at the same time.
"You found it?"
The people who were watching the ceremony nervously asked in unison. Even Y 'zaks was very concerned about this matter.
Ymir blinked. "This little girl is indeed the first sage, but she is very different from ordinary reincarnations or rebirths."
"What's different?" This time it was Hao Ren and Vivian who asked in unison.
"As I said before, the first sage was seriously injured by Vivian's crimson moon and eventually died." Ymir turned his eyes to Vivian. "The light of the crimson moon tore her soul apart. This is the key. After the death of the first sage, her soul was torn apart, but it did not disappear. Instead, it stabilized with the help of the space-time distortion of the Netherrealm Clock Tower. Part of her soul wandered in this tower and became the so-called Holy Spirit Echo, while the other part — "
"Floated outside?" Vivian interrupted without waiting for Ymir to finish.
"Yes, this part of the soul wandered in the Arctic for many years, getting weaker and weaker, but never really dissipated." Ymir blinked instead of nodding. "As the connection between the remnant soul and the Ice Fortress became weaker and weaker, she got rid of this place and floated somewhere on the border between Europe and Asia. Finally … Umm, finally … "
Ymir suddenly stuttered. Hao Ren could not help but feel a little anxious. "What happened in the end?"
"I don't know how it happened. In the end, the soul of the first sage got into the body of a newborn husky," Ymir said.
Everyone was speechless.
There was a little awkward silence, but Hao Ren thought for a moment and felt that there was nothing wrong. "It's quite normal. Lily is originally a husky. Anyway, I'm used to it. At this time, I only know how her race came about. "
Lily bared her teeth at Hao Ren in protest, but her cute big tail wagging was not intimidating at all.
"Then why didn't she know anything about these things?" Y 'zaks scratched his chin. "Soul rebirth is the best way of rebirth. Even if it's only a remnant soul, it's enough to retain most of the memory."
This time, even the knowledgeable Ymir could not figure out the reason. The experts of spirituality and occultism discussed for a long time but could not come to a conclusion. In the end, it was Hao Ren who clapped his hands. "Hey, it's simple. It's just that the dog's brain is not enough!"
Everyone was speechless.
Hao Ren shrugged. "Even if the first sage had great wisdom, putting her in the head of a husky would be a waste of time. I reckon that after the First Sage and the husky fused, they first underwent a thorough transformation. One sage, one husky. If we average the two together, the sage and the dog are gone, leaving only Lily … "
"Although Hao Ren has a strange imagination, I actually think it makes sense." Vivian glanced at Hao Ren with a strange expression, then quietly pointed to Lily next to Hao Ren. "And be careful, she's going to …"
"Awoo!"
"… Bite you."
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