Chapter 66 - Just Before the Wedding
66. Before marriage
That night, the prayers people made to the distant sacred tree were gradually answered.
Miao Jue got drunk for the first time in his life, and was so dizzy from being kissed that he was completely out of his mind. His breath was filled with the sweetness and aroma of that wretched bird.
But I felt an unprecedented sense of ease.
She knew, and they all knew, that after erasing the existence of the Immortal-Binding Stone, the century of suffering would truly, completely, and without a trace come to an end.
Whether it's her and Jinshi, or her older brother, sister, uncle, and aunt, everyone enjoys a free and boundless life.
The girl leaned against the window, her cheeks flushed. Her serious, thoughtful expression was unbelievable due to the alcohol, but she was incredibly cute.
While greed may always lurk in the human world, there are also so many ordinary people. Miaojue listened to the ordinary prayers rising and falling from all directions, her soft palms brushing across the world.
And so, the peddler's damaged wooden cart had its wheels repaired, the old farmer's thatched roof, collapsed by the rain, was restored to its original state, and the prodigal son, who had traveled thousands of miles but missed his mother's final moments, miraculously waited until his last moments, heard his mother's final words, and wept uncontrollably, clutching her hand. ...
Time is cold and merciless, but it is also occasionally kind.
“Little Bodhisattva.” Jin Shi lowered his eyes and murmured with a smile.
Miaojue shook her rosy head, her eyes clearing a little. "No, that's not it."
The voice of the Heavenly Gate could already be heard amidst the prayers.
Judging from various sources, their sect leader was a high-ranking official surnamed Wang. After his spiritual bone awakened, it was roughly an eighth-tier Earth-level Fire Spirit Bone. He always believed himself to be an absolute powerhouse until Heaven-level bones began to appear on the continent. The difference between Heaven and Earth-level bones was as vast as clouds and mud. This sparked his desire for advancement.
For example, if the "Sea Wonder Stone" can transform a black dragon into a dragon, is there another thing that can make a person's bones ascend to heaven?
The sacred mountains and divine lands at the end of the sea must hold the answers they seek, and the kind gods will surely protect these poor mortals!
"Divine Tree, Venerable Tree of the Divine Land, if you manifest your power, could you send rain tonight to enlighten your disciples?" The Sect Leader Wang stood in the deep courtyard of the Heavenly Pole Sect, devoutly kowtowing towards the distance.
Miaojue rubbed the tip of his nose and clicked his tongue, "He's quite cunning. He prayed for rain first to see if the tree was really effective."
“Sure,” Jin Shi said casually, raising an eyebrow. “That’s easy.”
With a light tap of his fingertip, endless ash spread like a dark cloud, burning and heating up before rising and cooling. Soon, rain began to fall softly over the Heavenly Gate.
However, every drop of rain was covered in ash, and it pelted them with mud.
Miaojue couldn't help but laugh: "...You're so naughty."
No matter how the world changes, he remains an undisputed villain.
Jin nodded humbly, "You flatter me."
It could get even worse.
The night was slowly dissipating, and the sky was beginning to lighten with the first hint of dawn.
Headmaster Wang straightened up from his devout prayer, clapped his hands, and a disciple kicked open a small door on the side of the courtyard. A moment later, the two main characters, a man and a woman, bound hand and foot and pouting, were escorted out and pressed to the ground.
Jin Shi sighed.
Miaojue also sighed.
There were several Heavenly Spirit Bones inside the Heavenly Pole Gate, but Dongfang Yaotian, a prisoner, remained fearless. After the biting cloth was removed, he spat wildly, his eyes bloodshot: "How dare you treat me like this! You will regret it!"
Master Wang clapped his hands again, and a dark, winding shadow suddenly darted out from a small door on the other side.
Sect Leader Wang didn't intend to answer them. He patted the black dragon's head and casually pointed, "Eat them. Both of them have Heavenly Spirit Bones."
Reversing the Heavenly Stems.
Having read this far, you've fully grasped the secret.
Could the ancient Eastern Thousand Industries have imagined that when Yin and Yang are reversed, cause and effect are interchanged, and beasts devouring humans would become a future scenario?
Sect Leader Wang was visibly excited. Ever since his accidental discovery of the Sea Stone, he had had a vague intuition. If beasts could greatly increase their spiritual bones by devouring them, transforming themselves from lowly dragons into dragons, then humans must also possess some method of devouring. That must be the world's greatest secret.
There is a hidden secret in this world!
Sect Leader Wang smiled and walked up to the astonished Dongfang Yaotian and Gong Yuqiu, saying, "If you can decipher the secrets of heaven, it will be a meritorious deed for you two. You will still be born with heavenly bones next time you are reincarnated. Don't worry."
Dongfang Yaotian cursed wildly as the black dragon slowly approached, opening its mouth as big as ten of Dongfang Yaotian's heads.
There was no wind or dust around.
But something seemed to flow through them at that moment.
With a mere touch of the upper and lower eyelids, the entire Tianji Gate vanished.
All the bricks, walls, pavilions, and opulent buildings vanished in an instant, leaving only tiny dust particles slowly falling in the air, as if wiped away by an invisible giant hand.
There was only an empty space left. Nothing but air.
Sect Leader Wang stood there dumbfounded, his heart and head aching all at once.
The male and female protagonists exchanged a glance, and as if guided by some kind of intuition of being chosen by destiny, they looked toward the nearby restaurant in the distance and saw a beautiful figure waving gently.
It was that girl...
What divine might this is!
A Heavenly-grade spiritual bone could never achieve this. It turns out there are mountains beyond mountains, heavens beyond heavens; above what they thought was the highest Heavenly Bone, there are... there are...
With another wave of his hand, the writhing black dragon began to shrink in place.
Sect Leader Wang rushed forward in astonishment: "How could this be? How did this beast's spiritual bone cultivation regress?!"
He tried in vain to salvage the spiritual power that had vanished from its body, like trying to retrieve his own dream of immortality with a bamboo basket.
"Look, over there on the other side of the sea, the divine tree has appeared!"
"The divine tree has descended upon the Heavenly Extreme Sect as punishment!"
In the distance, the clouds part over the sea, and the shadows of trees sway gently.
Jin Shi opened his eyes, and at the same moment, the people on the Changming Ancestral Land seemed to sense something. One after another, towering figures appeared faintly in the mountains, their gazes piercing through the sea and looking into the distance.
Jin Shi raised an eyebrow and finally curled the corner of his lips into a smile.
When a small hand intervenes in cause and effect, and when countless earthly sounds surge into Mount Culai, a perception from antiquity, innate and intimately connected with the Everlasting Stone Embryo, rises and falls in the hearts of the giant beasts of heaven and earth.
They began to realize that the little bird and Miaomiao were going to sever some kind of future.
They also began to realize an even more unbelievable possibility.
That is, the future may have already existed.
…
Inside the Heavenly Gate, Sect Leader Wang's face was deathly pale, his legs trembling. The fear of facing divine might made him begin to regret his actions.
Miaojue quietly asked Jinshi, "Is that not enough? Can we take them all to the bottom of the sea?"
You have to witness it with your own eyes to completely give up.
Jin Shi hummed in agreement, then asked, "We don't need to bring that earthworm, right?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the thin muscle on his side was pinched hard.
It didn't hurt him, of course, but he was groaning and whimpering from being pinched, and he glanced unhappily at the shrinking black dragon.
Then, with a flick of his finger, everyone on the open ground was engulfed in ashes. Terrified, they began to tear at each other and run in all directions, but no one could escape.
The golden crow spreads its wings, boundless and endless.
The disciples of the Heavenly Pole Sect felt everything go completely black before they rolled into even deeper, dark water.
Master Wang immediately realized they had entered the sea and began to struggle, choking on water and suffocating, crying out, "Help, help..."
Not far away lies the rare sea stone mine, the stairway to immortality for him.
Miaojue stood quietly before the trench; this should be the last time she and Jinshi came here.
With a flick of her wrist, the black dragon, which had degenerated into the size of a python, crawled onto her arm.
The dragon was very excited and wanted to touch her fingertips with its head, but before it could touch them, it was grabbed by a cold hand and flung out of the sea like an arrow.
The black dragon nearly crashed to its death onto the coral reef. It wobbled and staggered to regain its balance, almost tying itself into a knot, before finally swimming back in a crooked and unsteady manner.
His dragon tail swung back and forth, and although it lacked the magnificence of a dragon, it was much more carefree.
The black dragon cautiously and carefully observed the girl with the keen eyes of a deep-sea creature.
She looks very young.
He was about seventeen or eighteen years old and was a human.
But why is she so amazing?
On that small, delicate face, her features were exquisite and pretty, and even in the unfathomable depths of the sea, her skin remained radiantly white. A verdant, ethereal current spread behind her like roots, resembling a vibrant and eternal vein, flowing with a vast and mysterious power he could not comprehend.
It was beautiful and sacred, reminding him of the Mingming Pearl, the most treasured item of their deep-sea dragons.
It was the man behind her who was really an eyesore. He was a very dangerous person. Although he always had a smile on his face, his eyes and body were full of the predatory desire of a beast hunting. When he looked at her, he seemed to be admiring her, but there was always a sense of hunger in his eyes.
Last night, outside the restaurant window, Black Dragon saw that man... her...
How awful!
All the villains and conspirators were trapped in the deep sea by the girl. Of course, they couldn't see who was causing the miracle. They could only watch helplessly as the luminous white stone disappeared little by little, leaving not even a single speck of stone.
The ancient mineral veins that stretched for thousands of miles were thus gently erased by her.
Her existence is longer and wider than ten thousand miles.
Black Dragon didn't live long enough to describe that feeling.
He watched as everyone's expressions shifted from shock to awe, and finally to blankness, and felt as if this scene was... her casually tearing a page from a storybook.
And none of the stories that followed will happen.
The sea stones that the black dragon had eaten had all dissipated, and he felt completely relaxed, transforming back into a nimble and agile little dragon.
He quietly swam back. He could sense that the sea stone had nothing to do with the girl, but was subtly connected to the man's race.
She did all this to help him. Why?
They weren't even from the same tribe, so why was that girl helping him like this?
A warm and gentle voice entered the black dragon's mind, and he heard that man's hateful voice.
"Little earthworm, you'll never understand in your lifetime."
The black dragon angrily rolled around in the seawater. Who's the earthworm?!
The other party was completely oblivious to his feelings.
Anyway, he was in a good mood.
"She did all this because of love."
…
"How childish are you?" Miaojue pinched Jinshi's arm.
The little black dragon swam angrily towards the deep sea, its tail spinning in a spiral.
He will pass through the seabed crevice and return to his community, to his people.
Just like them.
Miao Jue withdrew his gaze, looked at the empty seabed, and let out a long sigh.
Yin and Yang converged once more, head to tail, and perhaps, tens of thousands of years later, a new generation of the Changming Clan would be born again. Will they still exist then?
She didn't know the secret, she only knew that she felt incredibly relaxed at that moment.
After a century of turmoil, this time we will finally put an end to everything.
"go home?"
"go home."
Jin Shi's lips curled up, a faint joy rising from the bottom of his heart.
The things he had prepared in his place were now completely finished.
I'm really looking forward to it.
The two crossed the water and returned to their ancestral home, holding hands as they walked into Mount Culai.
There was something faintly visible ahead, a patch of red light. She clearly felt the fingertips of the hand holding hers brush against hers, and his heart beat faster, as if he were anticipating something.
For some reason, her heart started beating faster.
My lips are a little dry.
But before the magic could be used to see clearly ahead, the view was suddenly blocked by a snowflake and ice mist, and the Culaishan Mountains were transformed into a crystal ball, a clear and romantic sight.
Only those who stepped out amidst the cracked ice flowers, their icy white snake tails trailing on the ground, no longer hesitated to reveal their true forms to Miaomiao.
The ancestor of Changming, with a phoenix body and a snake tail, walked up to her, lowered his head, and placed something cool in Miaojue's palm. His gaze was gentle, and though he had a thousand words to say, they simply disappeared gently, like snow melting away.
Then the Fire Kirin appeared. Fuji was still not used to revealing this true form, which was so different from his personality, in front of Miaojue, and was always worried that he would scare her.
The four unicorns carefully moved, their tails constantly refining something. Finally, they emerged from the flames and gently placed them in front of Miaojue. It was an exquisitely carved long box, containing something inside.
The fire unicorn seemed to smile from its towering head, but the secret was nowhere to be seen. Finally, its head was gently touched by a mountain-like claw, and the second brother plunged into the sea, heading into the distance.
After that, there was no fixed order for the remaining people; whoever was fastest got to go first.
Miao Jue vaguely sensed something, feeling both fearful and yet ruthlessly overwhelmed.
Her fifth aunt and third uncle gave her a large dowry box, which was filled with countless jingling items.
The panda and the red tiger got into a fight on the spot to get ahead, but the dashing little horse snatched the opportunity and handed them a cloth bag.
Ling Qi blinked. "You have to wait until we leave before you open it."
The secret is already making me dizzy, so why are we all leaving?
The snipe, dragging its long tail, swam over, spat out two enormous beads, and smacked Jin Shiyi over with a scrutinizing look before turning its head and swimming into the deep sea.
The bear's paw and the tiger's claw finally reached out together, and in the small bamboo basket, there was a handful of sweet seeds.
Without a doubt, this is the best thing that every older brother and sister has in their hearts.
The eighth sister came over last, her fox-like eyes slanted seductively. She stuffed who knows how many things into their sleeves and collars, and finally grasped Miaojue's shoulder, looking at the girl.
She wanted to say something, but the words rolled past her lips and dissipated like time. In the end, she said nothing, but simply hugged Miaojue tightly.
It transformed into a streak of silver light and disappeared into the vast天地 (heaven and earth).
The secret was revealed; at her fingertips, cause and effect had been completely altered.
They could all sense that what had trapped them had completely disappeared.
These colossal beasts that have long existed in their ancestral lands, these races that once endured endless suffering in the mortal world, can now roam freely across the land and explore distant places at will.
There were no chains, no high walls.
What she said was true, and I was fortunate to have fulfilled my mission.
"But why are people giving me these things?" Miaojue asked, turning her head in confusion.
Jin Shi had been quiet since earlier, but seeing his expression now, one realized that he hadn't spoken, but his eyes were like those of a lurking wild beast.
Only then did he slowly raise his peach blossom eyes, which were like fallen stars, and their light shone through.
The ancestral land is quiet and undisturbed.
They left behind their best.
"Can't you tell?" He smirked.
Before she could finish speaking, she gasped in surprise as she was suddenly lifted up in a horizontal embrace. Jin Shi lowered his eyes, his gaze reflecting the red dust of the distant Culaishan Mountains.
His eyes were filled with tenderness and fascination, and his voice was excited and smiling.
"My betrothal gifts."
"Your dowry."
Our world as a couple, we're getting married.
[Author's Note]
The last chapter is tomorrow night! [Crying][Crying][Crying]
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