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Chapter 3
After a long while, the needle fell in the hall, and finally Qingxiong said: "I tell you to go to the world to do three things, Hongjun, your father has raised you for twelve years, these three things, can you fulfill your father's wish? ."
Hongjun looked at Chongming, then Qingxiong, and then at Chongming again, and finally nodded and said, "If you say that, I will go."
Qingxiong handed out a letter and said: "Di Renjie had a government called the Great Tang Exorcist Division. You take this letter to the Exorcist Division and report it. Over time, slowly find out the death of your father Kong Xuan’s enemy, this is the first thing."
Hongjun thought for a while and asked, "Who is the enemy?"
"I don't know." Qingxiong got up, and another peacock feather made of jasper appeared between his fingers and handed it to Hongjun. "What kind of person was your father and what kind of life he spent in Chang'an. He has hated who has loved whom, who has had gratitude with him, and who has hatred with him. We don't know or say anything about this. Only you can find the answer to all this."
Hongjun hesitated for a moment, then took Peacock Ling.
"Four Zhanxian flying knives have been passed to you when you were young." Chongming raised his hand, threw out a map, and said, "Now Chang'an is a monster clan rampant, and all the monsters on the map can be killed."
"Oh." Hongjun caught it, and opened the map in his hand. The monster on it didn't know a word.
"You took it down." Chongming reminded.
Hongjun turned the map over immediately, pretending to look at the map seriously, but couldn't help glancing at Zhongming from a high place, Zhongming just didn't look at him.
"Who is Di Renjie?" Hongjun asked when he saw Zhongming's face eased.
"One person." Shigeming replied, "Your father's former friend, too, died long ago."
"The Exorcist Division specializes in collecting demons and exorcising demons." Qingxiong explained, "Now the demons in Chang'an are mortal enemies with Yaojin Palace. After you join the department, you will listen to them. If you can expel them The Demon King of Chang'an, your father and I will go back to the world to accompany you in the future."
"Really?" Hongjun suddenly looked up.
"When did I say that?" Zhao Qingxiong said coldly with a twisted eyebrow.
"Two hundred years ago." Qingxiong walked a few steps in the hall and slowly said, "A war broke out between Yaojin Palace and the Heavenly Demon Holy Land, which lasted for a long time, and finally..."
"You don't have to tell him," Shigeming interrupted. "He can't do it."
Qingxiong replied: "He is also your child, from Yaojin Palace!"
"Don't say much!" Chongming angered.
"I will defeat the Demon King." Hongjun replied with a smile on his face for a moment, "this is the second thing, it's a deal!"
"Even if the black dragon's corpse is broken into ten thousand pieces." Chongming almost gritted his teeth, "I won't go back to the world, don't bother to spend my life!"
Hongjun: "..."
"And this pendant." Qingxiong answered in time, put the pendant in Hongjun's hands, and explained, "After arriving in Chang'an, find someone who calls Chen Ziang and tell him that this is a burning lantern... nothing, nothing is needed Tell him, you just open it in front of him..."
After that, Qingxiong's slender fingers pinched the pendant, and the golden hoop under the pendant lit up the spell light, separated and unlocked automatically, and the crystal slowly flew up.
"...Crush the crystal in front of him again."
Hongjun looked surprised and asked: "Why?"
"This is the heart lamp given to me by King Xuandu Kun." Qingxiong said, "The successor should be the Chen family in the world, but two hundred years ago, there was a small accident and the power of the heart lamp failed to enter the Chen family... It's time for the things to return to their original owners, the crystal is broken, and the heart lamp will automatically enter the body."
"Whether the mortal is alive or not is still uncertain." Chongming sneered.
"It doesn't matter if you die, as long as the descendants of the Chen family can inherit." Qingxiong said, "Anyway, Hongjun, you have to find the heir of the heart lamp, give him the light in it, and then with him Make a friend, this is the third thing. After finishing these three things, you can come back to the Yaojin Palace, and your father will naturally not drive you down the mountain."
"Okay." Hongjun put it away cherishedly and replied, "I will finish these three things in one year and go home."
Chongming sneered.
"You have Kong Xuan's five-color light in your body." Chongming couldn't help but said, "It is enough to protect yourself. You have a flying knife to kill people and demons. There is no problem. I raised you for twelve years, and you and I are also fate. For one, if you don’t ask you this sentence, Qingxiong must blame me for being unkind again... Now you have to think clearly..."
Hongjun opened his mouth slightly and looked straight at Zhongming, who finally turned his gaze to him again, saying every word:
"In Yaojin Palace, you can pick any one you want, but I will give you whatever you can say."
The light of the sky entered the hall and sprinkled between the two people, and the skylight was covered with white clouds, and the blue sky was like washing.
After a long time, Hongjun finally replied: "I want my father...you accompany me down the mountain, will you succeed?"
After re-mingling for a long time, he got up and walked aside.
"No." He turned his back to Hongjun, never turning around.
"You said you'll give me whatever you choose." Hongjun smiled, "I'll pick you."
"Don't mess around," Qingxiong said, "Hongjun, this is for you."
Qingxiong handed Hongjun a baggage. Hongjun took it and slung it on his back. He slowly walked towards Zhongming, but he didn't want to look back at him. He turned and walked to the platform on the side of the palace. Hongjun had to stop and re-mingly said, "Don't talk about it, just leave now."
Hongjun was quiet for a while, and said, "That's not there."
Hongjun turned around and walked out of the side hall in a loss.
"It's exactly the same as Kong Xuan back then." Qingxiong sighed.
Zhongming's voice was hoarse, his shoulders trembling slightly, and he said: "He is him, Kong Xuan is Kong Xuan, these years, I have put it down, you haven't put it down yet."
Qingxiong was startled.
With a small burden on his back, Hongjun slowly descended along the winding road of Taihang Mountain. The carp behind him jumped and chased after him.
"Your Highness! Your Highness--!" Carp ran out of breath and said, "Why did you leave without waiting for me?"
Hongjun turned around suddenly, only to remember to forget it.
"Why are you here?" Hongjun said, "Hurry back! Go back! Father said the world is too dangerous..."
"Master Qingxiong asked me to follow you." Carp sat on a rock, wagging his tail, and asked, "Do you know where Chang'an is?"
Hongjun scratched his head.
"Do you know how many pennies should be exchanged for a tael?"
"Do you know where to buy a horse?"
"Do you know what the Dajianzhu store says? Do you know how to say hello when you meet the human race? Do you know that the better-looking men are more deceptive? You know..."
"Okay, okay, don't say it!" Hongjun replied, putting aside his burden and sitting down.
The carp demon said: "Wash your hands before eating, and add clothes when the weather is cold. There are spring, summer, autumn and winter in the world, no more than in Yaojin Palace..."
On the top of the Taihang Mountains in the distance between the clouds and mists, the sound of birds chirping, the golden wheels shining in the world, and the sea of clouds are set against the sun.
The broken thoughts of the carp demon beside Hongjun's ears have gradually been muted. He thought that he had been in Yaojin Palace for twelve years, and had never left his father's side. Although he yearned for the red dust to roll down the mountain, now he left home and thought about it before leaving Chongming actually intended to say goodbye, but he was so terrified that he couldn't help but feel sad.
"After three things, you can go home." said the carp demon, "don't cry."
"I didn't cry!" Hongjun said angrily.
"Let's go," said the carp demon. "My feet hurt when I walk on the mountain road."
Hongjun had to catch the carp monster, and the carp monster consciously put his hands and feet backwards, and Hongjun stuffed it into his pocket. He couldn't help but look back at the mountain top. At this time, his heart was full of complicated and inexplicable emotions. .
"Let's go," said the carp demon, "it won't go dark anymore."
Hongjun: "..."
Hongjun had to turn around and strode along the mountain road.
Three days later, in Yaojin Palace.
"Why have you been around for three days and three nights and haven't walked out of Taihang Mountain?"
Shigeming stood in the atrium, facing the pond, looking impatient. Reflections appeared in the pond—Hongjun was squatting next to a creek holding water to drink, sloppy and unkempt.
"I said that you can't drink raw water, boil it and drink it again, it will cause diarrhea, how come out of the mountain, there are no rules!" Chongming was almost mad.
"Get lost," Qingxiong replied.
"I said that the carp didn't tune it!" Shigeming was irritable and said, "It's fine, you go down and send him out of the mountain."
"I'm not going." Qingxiong said, "Go and go by yourself."
Chongming glanced at Qingxiong, and Qingxiong suddenly said, "I'll find the way. Look, you can get out along the right road."
Zhongming and Qingxiong looked at the pond together again. In the image, Hongjun was standing at a fork in the road, looking left and right.
"The one on the right! The one on the right!" Chongming and Qingxiong urged anxiously.
In the end, Hongjun lived up to expectations and chose the right path. The two finally let out a sigh of relief. Qingxiong said: "Now I'm going out, and I'll go to Chang'an in one month."
Finally, Hongjun slowly walked out of the periphery of the water mirror in the pond. His figure disappeared outside the last gorge of Taihang Mountain. Zhongming could no longer see him, so he had to turn around and leave alone.