"Master, I've finished my homework." Young Yun Qi carried a small cloth bag on his back and smiled.
"Alright." The abbot of Jinshan Temple patted Yun Qi's bald head affectionately after hearing what young Yun Qi said.
This is an ordinary scene.
This warmed Li Muge's heart.
Something's not right. This doesn't seem normal. Li Muge has been in Yun Qi's dream for quite some time now.
This child usually either chants sutras while striking a wooden fish, or he copies Buddhist scriptures and does his homework.
That's perfectly normal.
Li Muge was so bored that he would doze off, especially when he was next to Yun Qi listening to him recite scriptures seriously.
"Yunqi, wait for me, your senior brother will bring you candy when he comes back from the mountain," the chubby monk whispered.
He naturally kept some of the money for buying candy for himself.
Of course, the master must not hear it.
His purpose in descending the mountain this time was to visit the families at the foot of the mountain and to share the Dharma with them.
"Okay, senior brother, come back soon." At this time, Xiao Yunqi's cheeks were gradually getting fuller, and he was quite chubby, like a little dumpling.
With her adorable appearance, she won the hearts of all the monks at Jinshan Temple.
Li Muge hadn't expected Yun Qi to be living such a comfortable life.
But young Yun Qi never got to receive the candy from his senior brother.
Jinshan Temple was suddenly surrounded by government troops.
It is said that the newly enthroned emperor particularly disliked monks, and the new emperor made three bold moves upon ascending the throne.
The first fire was set on temples across the country.
None of the monks escaped.
They were all slaughtered.
Corpses littered the field.
Li Muge watched as a monk from Jinshan Temple hid the young Yun Qi in a dried-up well in a dry cave.
Almost all the monks in Jinshan Temple were killed, and some of them were stabbed multiple times.
He was tortured to death by those officers and soldiers.
Li Muge felt as if her heart was being tightly gripped, making it hard to breathe.
It looked like the soldiers were about to find the well where Yun Qi was hiding.
The monk, who was still alive on the ground, immediately rushed over, grabbed his stick, and tried to hit the soldiers.
But Li Muge actually knew.
The monk was trying to attract attention for young Yunqi.
Almost everyone at Jinshan Temple is dead.
Young Yun Qi, his face filled with fear, murmured to himself in a dark corner.
"Master, senior brother."
Sitting at the well's edge, Li Muge felt a sudden surge of sorrow. He wondered what had gotten into that damned emperor.
No wonder he was punished by having his skin peeled off alive after slaughtering monks.
Moreover, after being skinned, they were thrown into a salt jar and pickled raw.
Even more miraculously, the emperor still didn't die despite all that.
It's as if the murderer was deliberately keeping this damned emperor hanging on by a thread, not letting him die.
Let the dog emperor live and suffer endless torment.
Finally, he watched as his loved ones were tortured and died one by one before the emperor's eyes.
etc…
Peel.
Pickling.
This is a perverted method of committing crimes.
Li Muge seemed to have thought of something and became suspicious.
No, the emperor's final retribution was actually that Yun Qi killed him.
Li Muge thought it was highly likely.
However, Li Muge looked at the corpses scattered all over the ground, clearly they were laughing and talking on their own during the day.
While doing their own work, they have now simply become corpses.
Even Li Muge felt particularly uncomfortable after seeing it.
My heart feels so empty.
Then I felt as if a heavy stone was pressing down on my heart again.
Li Muge was somewhat worried.
Yun Qi has been hiding in this dry well. What if he starves to death?
Although he is a dragon, he has no magical powers.
Besides, even dragons need to eat.
As the night deepened, young Yun Qi raised his face and, mustering his courage, cautiously tried to climb out of the well.
I even tripped and fell a few times along the way.
Fortunately, they didn't fall from very high places.
Li Muge watched from the sidelines, unable to help Yun Qi in any way.
Young Yun Qi's little hands were covered in moss, and all his fingernails were broken and embedded in his flesh. Li Muge felt sorry for him when she saw this.
When young Yun Qi finally managed to climb out of the dry well, Li Muge followed beside him, even though he couldn't see her at all.
Li Muge suddenly wanted to call out to him and hug him to comfort him.
Xiao Yunqi stepped forward and looked at each of the familiar faces, now cold and lifeless.
He stopped crying and slowly descended the mountain alone. On the way down, Li Muge saw the monk who had said he wanted to buy candy for Xiao Yunqi.
He was still clutching a bag of candy tightly in his hand; he must have been on his way up the mountain when he happened to witness the soldiers being arrested.
"Senior brother." Xiao Yunqi walked up to the fat monk, placed his small hand on the monk's face, and told the monk to close his eyes and rest in peace.
"The candy is delicious," Xiao Yunqi said sullenly, tears welling up in her eyes.
Li Muge thought this was Yun Qi's experience of turning to the dark side, but as she prepared to get closer, the dream suddenly changed.
A monk dressed in Taoist robes appeared in front of Li Muge, holding a peach wood sword and chanting incantations.
But Li Muge wasn't interested. She suddenly realized that the person being hung up by the Taoist priest was actually Yun Qi.
At this time, Yun Qi had grown tall and slender, and was probably fourteen or fifteen years old.
His body was covered in sore flesh, just like countless other children imprisoned in countless dark corners.
Some of them are teenagers.
Some of them are only a few years old.
Both boys and girls are included.
Li Muge could tell at a glance that they were probably half-demons, or some were just minor demons with weak magical powers.
Similarly, they all wore dog leashes around their necks, and a few fences served as their enclosure.
Li Muge's fists clenched so tightly they cracked. This despicable mortal was treating these demon children like animals.
The Taoist priest held the child's hand and drew a talisman. After chanting a few incantations, the talisman turned into an iron nail.
"No." Li Muge said in disbelief.
He watched helplessly as the Taoist priest used his magic to drive the iron nail deep into the middle of Yun Qi's head.
This is puppetry.
This is far too insidious for a child.
Yun Qi screamed in pain, and when he opened his eyes again, the anger and hatred in them had faded.
The Taoist priest leisurely poured himself a bowl of tea: "You little wolf cub, you're stubborn with me and even want to kill me. You'll get what's coming to you."
The demon children being raised all had fear in their eyes when they heard Yun Qi's screams.
The Taoist priest glanced at them, his ego greatly satisfied.
"Yun Qi, help this Heavenly Master kill someone, then capture that ungrateful man's beautiful woman and bring her to my side so I can take good care of her."
The Taoist priest's face was full of ill intent; it was clear he had no intention of taking care of her, but was only after the woman's looks.
Li Muge spat and raised her fist, intending to punch the Taoist priest, but missed. If she had been good at balancing, she would have almost fallen flat on her face.
Yun Qi's dream was the same; it was always night, and Li Muge followed Yun Qi, who had become a puppet.
We arrived at a house.
Surprisingly, they discovered that the Taoist priest had ordered Yun Qi, who had been turned into a puppet, to forcibly take away the beautiful woman.
It was none other than Yun Qi's biological mother, Xiao Xue.
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