In this world, there were demons, Daoists, demons, Buddhas, courts, wars, and disputes.
The world was divided into four continents, namely Dongsheng Divine Continent, Aparagodaniya Continent, Beiju Continent, and Nanzhan Continent.
Beyond the four continents was the vast and boundless Endless Sea. Legend had it that there were countless immortal mountains and islands in the sea, but over the years, those who went out to sea to search for immortal traces had all left, but no one returned.
Dongsheng Divine Continent.
Daqing Dynasty.
In the first year of Jisheng, the previous Emperor passed away, and the young Emperor ascended the throne. The Emperor's title was Jisheng, and the Empress Dowager supported him.
The dynasty was divided into thirty-six provinces, and the feudal lords of each province were all disloyal, forming a separatist regime.
Bandits and bandits occupied the mountains as kings.
Desolate demons and demons ran amok without fear.
The world was in chaos.
And now, it was the twelfth year of Jisheng.
Daqing Dynasty, south of Jinping Province, Black Ox Village at the foot of Black Ox Mountain.
This was a small village that relied on passing down skills for generations to survive.
Black Ox Village's wooden fence covered an area of ten miles, so it had another name: Black Ox's Ten Mile Valley.
Today.
The children in the village played barefoot, and the starving old horses dozed off. In the middle of the village, there was an old man in his seventies, surrounded by a group of children, telling stories.
The old man was the oldest person in the village, and had lived the longest, so he was the most knowledgeable.
Legend had it that the old man had seen demons, wars, and high and mighty officials.
Therefore, when the children in the village had nothing to do, they liked to pester the old man to tell them the absurd legends outside the village.
"Grandpa, are there immortals outside the village?"
The children loved to listen to the beautiful and strange tales of immortals and demons.
The old man sat on a simple rattan chair, waving a fan, and chuckled as he shook his head. "Heh, in this world, other than the Seven Absolute Empress who stepped through the void and ascended five thousand years ago, who dares to call themselves immortals?"
When the children heard this, they quickly asked who the Seven Absolute Empress was.
As the saying went, the older you live, the more you know. The old man had been a graceful and beautiful wanderer when he roamed the world. Now that he was surrounded by the children, he did not hide anything, and casually told them the stories that had been passed down in the world.
"Legend has it that five thousand years ago, the Seven Absolute Empress appeared out of nowhere and defeated everyone in the world."
"Grandpa, grandpa, who is the Seven Ultimate Empress?"
"Heh, little fellow, there's something you don't know. The Seven Ultimate Empress is a stunning figure. Legend has it that her face is as beautiful as a flower, her facial features are exquisite like jade, and her figure is as delicate as smoke. However, every time she appears, her entire body is shrouded in a terrifying light. No one can see the true appearance of the Seven Ultimate Empress."
"There was even a legend that said that there was an equally talented man who used all kinds of methods and divine abilities in order to catch a glimpse of the Seven Ultimate Empress' true appearance. Finally, he shattered the protective light of the Seven Ultimate Empress. Guess what happened in the end? "
In order to make his presence known, the old man even used the method of keeping people in suspense.
Sure enough, the children's curiosity was instantly aroused. They stared at the old man with shining eyes and shook his thigh, asking him to quickly tell them.
The old man shook his head and the corners of his mouth curled up. He slowly said, "Dead."
The children were shocked. "The Seven Ultimate Empress is dead?"
"Bah! What the hell are you guys thinking about?! The one who dared to offend the Empress is dead! "
"How did he die?"
"Heh, there's something you don't know. Legend has it that the Seven Ultimate Empress is so beautiful that the moment a man saw the true appearance of the Seven Ultimate Empress, he breathed his last and died. "
"Wow!"
The children were naive. They were so scared that they covered their eyes. It was as if they could imagine the Seven Ultimate Empress' beautiful appearance. They used this kind of gesture to show that they did not dare to look at it.
The old man was very satisfied with the children's reaction. He ended the story with a sentence. "From then on, no one has seen the Empress' true appearance. When the Seven Ultimate Empress stepped into the void and ascended to the Upper Realm, her beauty became an ancient legend."
At this moment.
A discordant questioning voice came from not far away.
"Elder Niu, there's a doubtful point in your story. It doesn't make sense logically." A pale-skinned, plain-looking young man sat on a big stone by the village road. He raised his finger and laughed. "Since no one has seen the true appearance of the Seven Ultimate Empress, how can anyone know that the Seven Ultimate Empress is as beautiful as a flower, as exquisite as jade, and as delicate as smoke?"
The old man stared with his turbid eyes. He was speechless for a moment.
Although he did not know if "logic" was edible, he did not know how to organize the words to refute the young man's second half of the sentence.
"Besides, these adjectives are too exaggerated. One look and you can tell that they're just imagination. Maybe the legendary Seven Ultimate Empress did not dare to show her true appearance because she was ugly. Which woman doesn't like to be beautiful for others to admire? "
The old man was even angrier when he heard this. He raised a finger. He was so angry that his face was flushed red. His fingers were trembling. He felt dizzy, dizzy, and his heart palpitated. His lips trembled for a long time, but he could not say a word.
However, the old man did not respond. When the children saw the pale-skinned young man sitting on the big stone and talking cheerfully, they reacted greatly.
"It's the freak from the Lin family!"
"It's that freak!"
"Mother told me not to play with freaks."
"My father said to never get close to the freaks from the Lin family."
"My aunt said that freaks who get close to the Lin family will fall sick!"
"My second uncle said that freaks who get close to the Lin family will grow worms!"
"No, my eldest Dong Bo said that they'll grow red hair!"
"Wa, so scary!"
"So scary!"
"Scared!"
The children did not seem to be joking. They really believed the rumors. When the young man approached, their pink faces turned green.
Hu ~
In a split second, the children rolled around and scattered like birds and beasts. There was even one who was frightened by the rumors about the "freak". He fell down halfway and his face was covered in mud. He was so scared that he peed in his pants. He lay on the ground and cried loudly.
After the children left, Ye Zichen said.
The old man finally caught his breath. He looked helplessly at the pale-skinned young man on the stone and sighed. "That freak from the Lin family, what are you doing here today?"
The young man from the Lin family grinned. "Don't be so agitated. I'm here today to ask you something."
… …
The Lin family of Green Ox Village had passed down carpentry for generations.
The Lin family's carpenters suffered from childbirth. Every month, they would travel to the Golden Temple 30 kilometers away from Green Ox Village to pray for children.
Finally, they succeeded.
When Madam Lin gave birth to the child, she was already 40 years old. Her body was weak, her breast was shy, and her milk was scarce.
It was said that the carpenters had spent a lot of money to hire a young wet nurse to feed the child in a county 15 kilometers away.
But something strange happened.
Strange things happened one after another from the moment the child was born.
On the day of birth, the midwife saw the baby lying there motionless. She thought that the baby had died. She was so scared that she slapped the bottom of the baby's foot. But in the end, the baby suddenly raised his head and glared at her. His eyes were filled with an emotion called "anger."
The midwife had never seen such a strange thing. She felt that something was wrong and had nightmares every night. So after delivering the child for Carpenter Lin, she washed her hands of the golden basin and decided not to touch meat anymore. She retired from the Jianghu.
How could the old carpenter care so much? If it was strange, then it was strange. After all, he was still alive.
But the weirdest thing was yet to come.
Not to mention that the baby from the Lin family had a strange birthmark on his fair and tender body when he was born.
After the baby was born, when Carpenter Lin was thinking hard about a name, the baby in the swaddling clothes glared at him and raised his index finger as if he was pointing at something.
In the end, Carpenter Lin believed that the baby was not ordinary, so he named him "Lin Yi."
When Lin Yi was one month old, he refused to drink his wet nurse's milk no matter what. This worried Carpenter Lin and his wife. In the end, they were helpless. They were afraid that Lin Yi would starve to death because of a hunger strike, so they could only raise Lin Yi with porridge and rice paste.
When Lin Yi was half a year old, he could walk freely in a cloth. At that time, Carpenter Lin thought that the Lin family had produced a genius. Heh, weren't geniuses strange things? So Carpenter Lin did not take the strange things that happened when Lin Yi was born to heart. He even held a big banquet in the village because it was Lin Yi's first time walking.
But Carpenter Lin's days were not easy.
Lin Yi never spoke, nor did he cry.
He was always alone, sitting by the door, looking up at the moon and drawing something on the ground with his finger.
The seventy year old master in the village liked to tell stories in the village.
When Lin Yi was a year old, he would often sit by the side and quietly listen to the seventy year old master talk. In the beginning, no one thought much of it. But someone accidentally noticed that Lin Yi was only a year old, but when he listened to stories, he revealed an expression of contemplation like an adult. This scared many people, and they said that he was possessed by a demon. This matter was brought to Carpenter Lin's house.
Carpenter Lin was eager to protect his child, so he chased these demons out of the house and scolded them. As time passed, Old Lin was given the nickname of "Crazy Master Lin" in the village.
When Lin Yi was six years old.
Lin Yi still did not speak. All these years, Carpenter Lin's wife was so worried that her hair turned white. She thought that Lin Yi was born mute, so she went to the county every day to look for famous doctors to treat Lin Yi.
But within a hundred miles of Qingniu Mountain, she had looked for all the doctors who could hang a plaque and carry cloth strips to treat patients. These doctors either secretly shook their heads and said that they couldn't cure Lin Yi, or they were scared by Lin Yi's strange behavior. They kept saying that they were a quack, that they were wrong, that they would never dare to pretend to be a doctor again, and so on.
These experiences continued until Lin Yi was seven years old.
Carpenter Lin had already lost hope that ordinary doctors could cure Lin Yi. He painstakingly raised a lot of money and prepared to go to the Golden Temple to ask the Buddhist master to help.
But on that day, just as Carpenter Lin carried his luggage and prepared to go thirty miles early to the Golden Temple to ask the master for help.
Lin Yi walked out of the house with a helpless look on his young face.
"Father, I'm not mute. Don't torture yourself."
But now.
Lin Yi was twelve years old, unmarried, and single.
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