Chapter 372: Yun Qingzi's Intelligence
After much persuasion, Changfa finally finished her essay on the ghost, and then ran out the door in the blink of an eye. Yu Sheng watched her use her hair to turn into a hang glider and jump off the cloud viewing platform. He optimistically estimated that she should have flown halfway up the mountain to meet Cinderella and the others.
If you are not optimistic, you should be hanging on the tree now.
Little Red Riding Hood put down her phone and walked over with a helpless expression to help Rapunzel tidy up the pile of papers and exercise books that Rapunzel had thrown on the coffee table as soon as she finished writing, sorted them into different categories and put them into her schoolbag.
Yu Sheng was watching from the side and accidentally saw the other party's composition topic again. His eyelids twitched again.
"She has been like this since she was little, always showing off," Little Red Riding Hood said casually, "But this has made her the 'parent' of the fairy tale. At least she is more reliable when she goes out to take on tasks."
"Well, mainly because her essay was quite unexpected to me..." Yu Sheng curled his lips, and then revealed a thoughtful look, "But then again, I remember that she seemed to be the first one in 'Fairy Tale' to call me brother? I feel like many others just call me brother out of politeness, but she calls me that every day, and I'm almost used to it."
Little Red Riding Hood put away her pencil case and thought for a moment: "Maybe it's because she really had a brother before."
"...Ah?" Yu Sheng was really surprised, "She really has a brother?!"
"Yes, a long time ago."
"A long time ago?" Yu Sheng frowned, "What happened later?"
"Her brother didn't want her anymore," Little Red Riding Hood raised her eyelids, as if she was saying something very natural, "Many of us were abandoned by our parents, and she was abandoned by her brother."
Yu Sheng: “…”
"But that was when she was very young. I even suspect that she doesn't remember it at all now." Little Red Riding Hood shook her head and continued, "I don't know the details. I was still in kindergarten at that time, or I heard about it from other 'parents' later. She may only have some impression of her 'brother', or she may subconsciously think that she should have a brother."
She paused and glanced at Yu Sheng. “So I always thought it was a good thing for her to call you brother. Now this title has become something to be happy about for her.”
Yu Sheng didn't say anything, just watched Little Red Riding Hood's quick movements. After a while, he suddenly said with emotion: "You take good care of your brothers and sisters."
Little Red Riding Hood raised her head: "Why do you suddenly think of this? Although I do think I did a good job..."
"That's right. Just looking at Changfa's current mental state, I can tell that you've done a good job," Yu Sheng spread his hands. "Sometimes I even doubt that in her eyes, there are no bad people in the world. This character who is so cheerful wherever he goes..."
"Well, I'll just take that as a compliment," Little Red Riding Hood muttered subtly, and then changed the subject, as if casually asking, "By the way, about that foreign land you guys went to recently, I heard from Xiao Yuer that there was another person who was suspected to be an 'abnormal'?"
"It seems that it is very likely to be an 'abnormal type', because almost all the scenes of 'wilderness', 'fortress' and 'country' have appeared in it, but all the scenes are randomly changed and have a high degree of 'illusion' or 'reverberation' characteristics." Speaking of business, Yu Sheng's expression became more serious. "This structure composed of 'scenes' is somewhat similar to 'fairy tales', but we have not found that it has 'action rules' similar to fairy tales."
"Well...anyway, be careful. If you need help, just call me or anyone in the 'fairy tale'. We are always willing to help," said Little Red Riding Hood, and a smile suddenly appeared on her face. "I am not a child laborer now."
Yu Sheng also laughed and raised his hand to lightly clap hands with the girl.
Then he picked up Irene at random from the house and put her on his shoulder, turned around and left No. 66 Wutong Road, opened the door and went directly to Queyun Palace.
Not long after arriving at the hall, he saw Yuan Ling Zhenren who came in a hurry, and Xuan Che who appeared with him.
"I was refining the elixir just now, so I received your message a little late," Yuan Ling Zhenren said hurriedly as soon as they met, "You said you had something important to discuss? What happened?"
Yu Sheng got straight to the point: "Have you ever heard of the name 'Yun Qingzi'?"
"Yun Qingzi?" Yuan Ling Zhenren was stunned for a moment, and then he quickly searched his memory, thinking while speaking, "I feel like I've heard of this name before... Where did you hear this name? Why did you mention it suddenly?"
"In a dream, but it may not just be a dream," Yu Sheng did not hide anything and directly told all the "illusions" he had experienced before, "... It was just such a scene, which seems to be related to some "information" carried in the foreign land I have recently contacted, all pointing to the "Emperor's Legacy". That Yun Qingzi suddenly appeared at the end. He seemed to be a "bystander" like me, and he was shocked and angry at my appearance. He killed me as soon as he saw me..."
He described the figure who called himself "Yun Qingzi" in detail, then thought for a moment and added, "I always feel that the other party's mental state is not normal and he is a bit nervous."
As soon as he finished speaking, before Yuan Ling Zhenren on the opposite side could speak, Irene, who was sitting on his shoulder, widened her eyes first: "Ah? Why didn't you say hello to me when you encountered such a big thing in your dream?"
"What do you want to do?"
"Help you fight!" Irene said as a matter of course, "Have you forgotten that I'm a good fighter in my dreams? And maybe I can see through things that you can't see through!"
"...I don't remember it," Yu Sheng was a little embarrassed, and then he made up for it, "Besides, I didn't have time to greet you at that time. He rushed up to me without even saying hello. Before I could react, he had already finished the process of making threats."
"I don't care! Next time you have to call me first, especially when you encounter such a weird dream!" Irene was a little angry for some reason, "It's so dangerous, and you react so slowly in the dream, you don't even know you're at a disadvantage."
"Okay, okay, I get it..."
Zhenren Yuan Ling's expression became serious when he was halfway through Yu Sheng's words. After listening to Yu Sheng's description of "Yun Qingzi", his expression was already very solemn. It was obvious that he had vaguely thought of something. After a moment of silence, his eyes suddenly focused, and then he looked up and looked at Xuan Che.
"Could it be... 'Exiled Immortal from the Borderland' Yun Qingzi?!"
"'Exiled Immortal from the Borderland'?" Yu Sheng quickly stopped arguing with Irene, "What does that mean? Is this really a celebrity?"
"He's not a celebrity, but an ancient person," Yuan Ling Zhenren immediately said in a serious tone, "He was a figure from the last 'generation'!"
Yu Sheng's expression suddenly became dull: "Ah?"
"Remember I once told you that in the early days of the reshaping of Taixu Lingshu's history, before the current 'Five Sects Co-Governance' pattern stabilized, there were many powerful ancestors on Taixu Star, right? Later, as the chaotic aftermath of the second singularity outbreak gradually subsided, new forces from all sides of Taixu Lingshu emerged and reached a consensus, and many ancestors gradually faded out of the world. Except for those who died in the early days, the rest either fled to other places, or lived in seclusion, or played in the world under an assumed name..."
"I remember, I remember." Yu Sheng remembered it after hearing this and nodded repeatedly, "You mean... this 'Yun Qingzi' is such a reclusive 'ancestor'?!"
"I can only think of this one person," Yuan Ling Zhenren nodded, but his brows were tightly furrowed, "But he is not just 'in seclusion' - according to the records, we all thought he had died a thousand years ago!"
"…dead?"
"The last time Yun Qingzi appeared in front of the world was on a desolate alien planet near the border of Feiyu-13b," Yuan Ling Zhenren said in a deep voice. "Since the 'Five Sects Co-governance' pattern stabilized, many powerful ancestors have lived in seclusion, and he has disappeared from the world. But he still appears every three to five hundred years, and mostly near the border. Until a thousand years ago, a border guard post observed a terrifying impact, and a desolate planet was hit by an unknown force...
"In the subsequent investigation, we found some damaged monitoring equipment, and the records showed that Yun Qingzi was on that desolate planet at the time. He seemed to be fighting with something, but he was defeated. At the last moment, he burned his spirit, which led to the void devouring and caused that terrifying impact.
"Afterwards, we only found some broken pieces of bodies with exhausted spiritual power and a large area of scorched earth where the essence and blood had been burned out. In the thousand years since then, Yun Qingzi has not appeared in front of the world again."
Yu Sheng listened to the story intently without saying anything for a long time. Irene on his shoulder blinked her eyes and said after a long while: "Then it does sound like he is dead...his body was blown into a scorched earth?"
"This is indeed the conclusion we have reached all along, but now it seems that this old senior is probably still alive," Yuan Ling Zhenren stroked his beard with a serious face, "People like him often have incredible ways to save their lives, and some even have methods that are close to reincarnation. At the beginning, we only found some debris after the battle on that desolate planet, and we really can't be 100% sure that he has fallen."
"Is there no way to determine what he was fighting at the time?" Yu Sheng suddenly became curious. "Also, what was his personality like before that? Was he as nervous as when he met me?"
"There's no way," Yuan Ling Zhenren shook his head. "A thousand years ago, the Taixu Lingshu was not as powerful and advanced as it is now. Most of Feiyu-13b was still an uninhabited planet, especially the border areas. Many places had not even been explored at that time. The best ones were just a sentry post and a few automatically operated mechanical men. Except for powerful monks who could form their own Zhoutian and open caves on desolate alien planets, no one would approach such a place casually. There was too little information to collect.
"As for the old senior's temperament... I don't know much about it, but at least from what I've heard, he doesn't seem to be crazy. On the contrary, he is known to be elegant and easy-going."
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
