While Chang Le was talking to Lu Jin'an outside the door, Hua Xiange chased after her, wearing a white floral black suit and her hair dyed back to black, panting heavily as she ran.
"Is there anything I can help you with?" Chang Le asked politely and courteously.
Hua Xiange opened her mouth, her eyes, red from crying at the memorial service, looked at her, but she didn't say anything. Chang Le wasn't impatient either, and waited quietly.
“It’s nothing important, I just…” Hua Xiange forced a smile, “wanted to see you. I’m afraid I won’t have the chance to see you again.”
Chang Le simply smiled at him and said, "I wish you happiness." After saying that, she nodded to Lu Jin'an and left.
Hua Xiange stopped chasing, because he knew it was impossible to catch up now.
Seeing Chang Le return from the memorial service looking perfectly normal, Luo Xuan and the others breathed a sigh of relief.
For the rest of the time, Chang Le spent most of her time in the Golden Palace with Granny Wu and Fu Yue.
After the recent disaster, the two elderly people were in a state of relaxation, as if they were hanging on by a thread, and their physical condition was visibly deteriorating. Everyone felt heartbroken, but there was nothing they could do.
Even Chang Le, who now possesses a portion of the world's destiny, cannot transcend the universal theme of life and death. All she can do is spend more time with the two elderly people, ensuring they have no regrets.
In September, the autumn chill is palpable in the ninth region, with intermittent autumn rains bringing a touch of coolness. Winter has come early this year, and it may be a harsh one; I wonder how many people will not survive it.
At the beginning of the month, Chang Le, Wang Yao, and Huan Bo accompanied Granny Wu and Fu Yue back to their hometowns.
The three of them first accompanied Granny Wu to the west of Hua'an City in District 1.
About eighty or ninety years ago, in the area adjacent to Hua'an City and Yangfeng City, there was an ancient family of poison doctors. At that time, the family had developed to its peak and was only one step away from becoming one of the top families in the district.
Granny Wu's original name was "Liu Wuxin," and she came from a family of poison doctors. In her youth, she witnessed the rise of the Liu family, and soon after, she saw the family decline after taking a risky path in the struggle between Qin and Ying.
The buildings that remain at the original site of the Liu family's main residence are not the original ones, but were rebuilt by the locals later in commemoration.
Nearly seventy years later, Liu Wuxin, who is over 110 years old, returned to this familiar yet unfamiliar land. He stared silently at the buildings that no longer bore any trace of familiarity for a long, long time.
Wang Yao helped Granny Wu sit down at the door.
The area surrounding this place is an ancient city with a complex network of roads. Only local residents come and go, all busy with their own affairs, and they simply assume the four of them are tourists.
Chang Le sat down with her mother-in-law, and the old woman came to her senses and slowly began to recount her past.
Liu Wuxin inherited the extraordinary ability to make poisons and has been exceptionally talented since childhood. At school, she met her classmates Ying Miao and Qin Shaoji. She was indifferent to the proud, strong-willed, and even arrogant Qin Shaoji, but she had a good impression of the ambitious, shrewd, and sensible Ying Miao. The two became friends during a competition.
Liu Wuxin was naturally quiet and didn't like socializing or going out. She usually stayed in her research lab and small garden. It wasn't until she met Ying Miao that she started being taken out by her regularly. She didn't mind, but if she was alone, she preferred to stay at home.
Ying Miao's personality was the opposite of hers. Seeing that she was always sullen, she would always find various reasons to take her out. She was also willing to accompany Ying Miao and would always follow quietly.
The two are very different in personality, one quiet and the other active, yet they have a very good relationship.
But at some point, Liu Wuxin noticed that her friend was becoming increasingly reckless in her actions. For the sake of family interests, all sorts of harmful methods, both to herself and others, became commonplace. On the contrary, she didn't think she was wrong at all, and even felt it was justified.
Liu Wuxin was furious, and after arguing with him to no avail, the two broke up.
But at this crucial moment, the Liu family was unwilling for her to withdraw, because they wanted to use Liu Wuxin's connections to get close to the Ying family, and to Ying Miao, the future head of the Ying family. Liu Wuxin felt extremely disappointed and left home.
Little did they know that this trip would lead to a complete upheaval, with everything changing and people no longer the same.
Ying Miao and Qin Shaoji broke up, and the relationship between the two families deteriorated. The Liu family, which wavered between the two families, became a useless family and was suppressed and went bankrupt overnight. The head of the family committed suicide, leaving behind a pile of debts. The matriarch tried her best to fill the void but died suddenly due to exhaustion. By the time Liu Wuxin learned of the news from the secret realm and rushed back, the Liu family was already dead or scattered.
Liu Wuxin questioned Ying Miao but was beaten and driven away, thus beginning a deep feud between the two.
Later, when Liu Wuxin was feeling lost, he met the Dragon Emperor Fu Guang, who took him back to the Ninth District and made him join the Dragon Sect, where he stayed for seventy years.
They sat there until the setting sun cast long shadows, obscuring the stone carvings on the door, before the old witch finally stood up and said, "Let's go home."
Given her physical condition, Chang Le teleported the three of them back to the Golden Palace.
After sending Granny Wu to rest, she went to see Fu Yue and asked if he wanted to leave now.
Fu Yue told her to rest for the night and leave the next day, and Chang Le agreed.
But after leaving him, she did not rest and went alone to Africa, which is Fu Yue's hometown.
More than a hundred years ago, near the roof of the mountains in eastern Africa, there lived a tribe of mountain gods, mainly Amraha people. They passed down their earth-based supernatural abilities from generation to generation, believing them to be gifts from the mountain gods and children of the mountains.
Fu Yue was born here.
After awakening a powerful protective ability that allowed him to merge his body with the earth, Fu Yue was called "???? ?? (Ethiopian)" by the people of the tribe.
The transliteration is "Volkashelia" (a fictional name by the author), which means "son of the mountain".
Chang Le arrived at the birthplace of Fu Yue, only to find that it had become an old ruin inhabited by a different species.
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