249|Prince’s Marvelous Memory Drift 4

The direction that the ghostly man said was not complicated, it was just a few miles to the south in a certain cave in a certain mountain. Xie Ren was also confident that ordinary people could not catch up with his speed, and he would definitely arrive faster than Sanlang’s subordinates.

Sure enough, an hour later, he killed to the place, rushed into the mountain is a burst of wild demolition and beating, hit the mandrill night cat ghosts crying, finally, found that a certain hole in the mountain.

Although the demon was not a small one, with 300 to 400 minions guarding its door, to Xie Ren, it was no different from three to four minions guarding the door. He was worried about the strength of the enemy and did not act rashly, but after patiently guarding the cave for a while, and listening to the minions chatting and gossiping, he realized that the demon had been having a hard time for the past few days.

“…… Yeah yeah yeah, the mountain master easily escaped from under the hands of a stinking Taoist priest, scared half to death, with injuries back, as soon as he went back to the ass abandoned the original cave, fled to here.”

“I see! I said why the big guys were suddenly summoned away. So it’s because you’re afraid that the Taoist priests will come to take revenge!”

“There’s no need to be afraid, that Taoist was gnawed on by the mountain master, even if he can wake up now, he’s still confused and can’t find his way out.”

“How can he not be afraid? After all, the mountain master is a few hundred years old well-known demon, it is said that the Taoist suddenly appeared out of nowhere, two palms beat it to the nose crooked eyes, if not that Taoist seems to have a wound on the body of where to give him an opportunity to nibble on a few bites, I am afraid that the mountain master will not be able to come back.”

“Damn, where did the wild Taoist come from to be so powerful!”

Hearing this, Xie Ren felt that it was almost time, so she walked out calmly and greeted her gently, “Hello, you guys.”

The crowd of small demon minions were startled and jumped up, “What kind of people!”

“Where’s the white boy from?”

Xie Ren smiled faintly and didn’t have time to explain, he directly killed his way into the cave. He casually grabbed several, casually threw dozens of feet, even without magic power, but also scared the minions screamed more than: ”What’s wrong with this little white man!!!! What’s wrong with this little white boy? How to do it is also rough!!!”

So all the way to pull weeds generally unimpeded stepped into the cave, Xie Ren was ready to fight with a well-known big demon, who knew that after going in, I saw a demon in human form rolling around on the ground, holding his stomach ouch ouch ouch, wah la wah la.

Xie Ren first thought it was pretending, and then looked, it did not look like a fake, its stomach rumbled high, as if it had swallowed something so powerful, so Xie Ren squatted down and said, “What’s wrong with you?”

The demon was probably delirious with pain, and as soon as he saw Xie Ren, he shouted, “Just in time! You! I won’t eat it! I don’t dare to eat it! Never dare again! I’ll give you back what I swallowed! I can’t digest it, I can’t digest it!”

Xie Ren said, “You’re recognizing the wrong person, aren’t you? You didn’t swallow my things, so what are you giving me back?”

The demon was rolling on the ground in pain and couldn’t care less about answering his words. Xie Ren didn’t know why, so he drew a talisman with his hand and put it away first. Amazingly, once the talisman was slapped on, the demon actually turned into a rounded tumbler, its stomach was even bigger than other tumblers, very funny. Xie Ren was amused and surprised, looking at the talisman he drew, wondering how it could have turned out like this? Was there a mistake in the drawing?

But it wasn’t a big problem. This battle was simply easy as Xie Ren exited the deep mountains, and it was already dawn. He put the Undying Womb into his sleeve and hurried back towards the city.

Having finally done something for that Sanlang, Xie Ren was in a happy mood and was already thinking about how he was going to show the captured demon to Sanlang later. He secretly admonished himself that if Sanlang revealed a look of surprise, he should also be reserved and not show his joyful face. After running around all night, his legs and feet were slightly tired, so Xie Ren casually found a stall and sat down, getting a bowl of tea that didn’t cost anything to drink.

As he drank, he suddenly heard someone yelling at him from behind, “Xie Ren!”

Xie Ren immediately put down the tea bowl.

Who would be so bold as to call him by his name on the street? You know, even among the royal family, there are few who are so disrespectful, who are not respectful and fearful to call him His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?

When I looked back, the man was actually a civilian, carrying a large wooden box, striding along and shouting, “Wait! Quickly wait! You forgot about Xie Ren! Take him with you!”

It turned out that it wasn’t calling him, there was just someone with the same name as him. Xie Ren was even more surprised. Although he didn’t care about avoiding names or anything, he was surprised that someone actually dared to take the exact same name as him.

He knew right away that the “Xie Ren” the man was talking about was not a person.

There was also a Han man sitting near Xie Ren, and the man holding the box went and sat down next to the Han man, patted the wooden box, and said, ”I’ve brought Xie Ren. Remember to send it today to the one you offer at home! Don’t believe in this evil, if these two are not placed together, it’s going to be bad luck!”

“That’s that’s that. I naturally know ……”

Xie Ren really couldn’t help it and opened his mouth, “Please ask ……”

The two men turned their heads in unison to look at him. Xie Ren said, “Forgive me for taking the liberty. May I ask, what is in this box?”

The man said, “Didn’t I say so? It’s Xie Ren inside.”

Xie Ren was puzzled, “But …… isn’t Xie Ren the Crown Prince?”

As if they found it funny, those two said, “No one said he wasn’t a prince, he was originally. Look!” Saying that, they uncovered the box.

Xie Ren’s eyes widened. That wooden box, was actually a small shrine, and within the shrine was a grayish idol of a white-robed Taoist man with a bucket hat on his back.

He didn’t recognize it.

“…… “Xie Ren was completely unable to understand, saying, “Are you guys saying that this idol is the Prince of Immortal Music, Xie Ren?”

“Or what?”

The others have also gathered around, half of them looking at him as a rarity: “You’re a strange young man, you still look like a Taoist Master, how can you not even know such a simple thing?”

Half of them are looking at this “idol”: “Wow! That’s a nice carving of a broken immortal! It’s a bit sad.”

“Yeah bereft, it’s an unlucky look at first glance!”

“Good good good! The uglier it looks now, the better it will look when that one breaks it open for him, and it will look good in eight days at the most when it’s put together.”

“……”

Xie Ren said blankly, “Ragged Immortal? How did you become a Ragged Immortal again?”

The crowd said, “You’re really strange, this Taoist Master! Xie Ren was originally a rag collector!”

“……”

Xie Ren wasn’t someone who got angry very easily, but she was slightly annoyed at the moment.

Anyone who hears someone mocking them as a rag collector wouldn’t be much happier, and he stood up all of a sudden and said in a deep voice, “Do all of you have any grievances against the Immortal Music Imperial Clan? Even if you do, it’s not very etiquette for you all to insult the Crown Prince like this.”

The crowd looked at each other and laughed at him, “What are you talking about, which country’s etiquette is appropriate? The Xianle Kingdom was destroyed more than eight hundred years ago!”

……

An hour later, Xie Ren walked down the street, still a bit muddled.

It was horrible. Everything the party had received was too horrible for him.

“How could the Immortal Music Kingdom be destroyed? My father and mother are still alive and well, aren’t they? And how could I have destroyed it? Did I lose the war? I destroyed the country? I was demoted twice? I became a rag collector?”

He questioned himself over and over again and told himself: it couldn’t be. It can’t be. It can’t be!

He tried to convince himself, “These aren’t real at all, it must be something behind the scenes.”

But everything that was vaguely wrong, the odd accents, the odd attire and the odd buildings, and the odd wind letters and moo shims, were all telling him that this was not a nightmare, and that this was not some kind of phantasmagoria. No demon or devil could create such a pon**y real illusion.

It really has been 800 years.

How come it’s been 800 years?

How did he become like this after 800 years?

Xianle Kingdom was destroyed; Father and Mother died; Fengxin and Muyi ascended. He became a rag collector.

What’s going on?

It can’t be like this. It shouldn’t be like this!

Xie Ren walked faster and faster, and finally ran, as if an infinite darkness behind him was forcing its way to swallow him up. Suddenly, a red shadow flashed, and a long figure stopped in front of his eyes, saying, “Daoist, where have you been? I’ve been looking for you for a while.”

It was none other than Sanlang. Still smiling, he said he was going to come over to hold him, while Xie Ren’s chilly hairs stood on end as soon as he saw him, shouting, “Don’t come over here!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

A drink of water. Miroku’s figure lurched, his expression unchanged, and he said, “What’s wrong?”

Xie Ren clenched his fists and said coldly, “Who the hell are you? What do you want?”

Miroku said, “I thought that we had talked well enough yesterday not to care about such minor issues.”

Xie Ren said, “You lied to me.”

After a moment of silence, Miroku said, “Do you already know.”

Xie Ren said, “I already know, it is …… now eight hundred years later.

He wouldn’t have been so late in sensing that something was wrong with those, but the man had been deliberately keeping it from him, mesmerizing him to the point of confusion; otherwise, how could it have taken him a day to realize the truth?

Miroku took a step toward him and said, “Your Highness.”

Xie Ren took several more steps back and drank, “Don’t come over!!!! Come over again and I’ll hit you!”

His voice and body were trembling. Xie Ren was terrified.

What he feared was not any demon or devil, nor was it the man in front of him who was also immortal and evil, but this whole strange world. In this world, he had no proud glory, no loyal subordinates, no loving parents, no country of his own, no believers who adored him. No, no, nothing!

Miroku nevertheless took a step toward him and said, “Don’t be afraid, Your Highness.”

“……”

Hearing this sentence, Xie Ren’s face changed.

He suddenly remembered the man who whispered in his ear, “Don’t be afraid, Your Highness,” in those fragmentary moments.

How did he not realize that?

Their tones and voices were, simply, identical!

Xie Ren shivered with anger and said, “It’s you …… It’s really you ……”

Thinking that this person has tricked himself into a circle, he is still grateful to him, full of goodwill, one by one called him “brother”, Xie Ren will be unable to bear the anger surging, a palm chopped out, said: “You this liar!”

This palm strike went, hitting Sanlang squarely in the chest, Xie Ren was about to strike another palm, but realized how he could not move.

It was his own body that held him back!

While Xie Ren didn’t understand what was going on, Sanlang grabbed his hand. Xie Ren was startled, then said word for word, “Don’t touch me! You’re a liar, lying to me. I will never trust you again. You ……”

Miroku, however, murmured, “Your Highness, trust me.”

Xie Ren said angrily, “I don’t believe it!!! I! ……”

But, like the attack that was stopped, the “unbelief” that followed could not be uttered.

The concern and pain in this man’s eyes was unmistakable. Anyone who saw a man show such a look to another would never doubt his sincerity again.

As if to separate Xie Ren from this unfamiliar world that terrified him, Sanlang finally gathered him into his arms, his lips kissing gently in his hair as he softly said, “Don’t be afraid, Your Highness. It has already passed. Your Highness. You’ve come through it.”

“……”

After a long time, Xie Ren’s body finally softened.

Now, putting aside the mortification, think carefully. The man’s voice calling out to him in those fragmentary pieces of the dream had been gentle to the core, without any semblance of coercion.

As for himself …… although there was indeed begging and sobbing, he could hear that it was not half as unwilling. It was just that he hadn’t been willing to face up to it before, so he hadn’t noticed.

Xie Ren finally realized why he couldn t help but trust this man as soon as he saw him. I am afraid that after eight hundred years, his relationship …… with Saburo is not simple.

He completely gave up resisting his body and let himself go with the flow, burying his face in Miroku’s arms and muffling, “Let’s ……”

Miroku said, “Uh-huh.”

Silent for a long time, Xie Ren murmured, “Why …… did I suddenly forget everything during these eight hundred years?”

Saburo said, “It was my fault. The day before yesterday you suddenly received a prayer in the middle of the night and left in such a hurry that I didn’t help you restore your mana, and I didn’t have time to tell you that if you were bitten by that demon you would have your memories swallowed by him.”

Xie Ren said, “Then this isn’t even your fault, it’s my own carelessness.”

Miroku said, “Your Highness is never bad.”

Xie Ren reluctantly smiled, and then said lowly, “Then, Sanlang, how could I …… let Xianle destroy the country?”

He obviously cherished his people so much, and had ambitions to keep Senryaku alive for another thousand years.

Miroku held him tighter and said with certainty, “It’s not your fault.”

Xie Ren muttered, “How could I be such a failure? How did I become like this?”

Who does not want to do something amazing at the beginning of the great cause of the world, and will be remembered for generations to come. Even if a million people may not have one can really achieve what they want, Xie Ren never doubt that he is that one in a million.

Maybe that’s why Miroku didn’t let him realize it was now 800 years later.

Miroku said, “You didn’t fail.”

Xie Ren shook her head and said, “But I don’t have any believers left.”

Miroku said, “You have.”

Xie Ren was saddened at the thought and said, “I’m a rags immortal, a rag collector, no one even considers me a believer or a god. Who would respect a rag collector immortal?”

That’s not even close to his dream.

Instead, Miroku said, “Didn’t I tell you? You have a believer.”

Xie Ren lifted his face, and Saburo smiled at him, “Your Highness, I told you that you would see Flower City soon. Now, you have seen it.”

“……”

Xie Ren raised her head, gazed at his face, and said with slight confusion, “Sanlang, when did you …… know me?”

Flower City said, “From long, long ago, when you had not yet ascended.”

Xerxes blinked sluggishly.

Flower City added, “Your Highness, perhaps you, right now, will feel that you are a failure eight hundred years from now, perhaps you will be disappointed and unable to accept it, but please believe me, that’s not the case.”

His one bright left eye gazed at Xie Ren, the light in his eyes and his voice generally low and soft.

He said, “You saved me. I’ve been watching you.

“There are countless people in this world who have been ‘more successful’ than you, but none of them could have saved me the way you did, and none of them could have done the things that you did –

“You don’t know how much courage you’ve given me to be who I am today.

“In my heart, you will always be the only god.”

Xie Ren said, “And you will always be my most loyal believer.”

As soon as the words left his mouth, he reacted to the fact that this sentence of the party was picked up subconsciously by him in a trance, as if he had heard such a precious promise somewhere. Hua Cheng, however, smiled, took his hand and kissed the back of it, saying, “Yes.”

“……”

After a long time, as if she had made up her mind about something, Xie Ren took out the demon’s undefeatable demon from her sleeve and said, “Is this the demon that swallowed my memories?”

Hua Cheng picked up the demon and said, “Indeed, it was Your Highness that you brought his new nest to an end.”

Xie Ren nodded and said, “In order to recover your memories, you have to start with it right?”

The undefeatable man was in Hua Cheng’s palm, grew his mouth, and a few firefly-like points of light flew out of his mouth, fluttering around Xie Ren. Hua Cheng said, “Catch them and you can get back your highness’s memories of these 800 years.”

Hearing this, Xie Ren reached out his hand towards them. However, when it was about to touch, it stopped moving.

Recovering these eight hundred years of memories was like having to travel through eight hundred years again, experiencing everything once more, the pain of those hundred swords piercing through the heart, the shame of a defeat, the anger of being unable to do anything about it.

Though he knew it was really only a moment, his fingertips trembled slightly.

Flower City stood behind him, making it seem as if his back was against a solid wall. He heard Hanagi’s voice from behind, “Do not be afraid, Your Highness.”

Xie Ren slightly sidled his head, and Hua Cheng wrapped his arms around his waist and said, ”Trust me. No matter how long it takes, I will always be waiting for you. You will meet me again.”

Yeah. It’s still going to happen.

Thus, Xie Ren extended her hand towards those points of light.

Points of starbursts merged into his fingertips, and he felt very bright in front of him, as if something burning was approaching. Before that bright light arrived, Xie Ren said, “I am very happy that I met you.”

After this sentence, the dots of light merged into his body and disappeared. Xie Ren slowly fell forward and was caught by Hua Cheng.

It took a while for Xie Ren to wake up leisurely. As soon as she opened her eyes, Hua Cheng whispered, “Brother?”

Xie Ren slowly bloomed a faint smile, reached out her hand, stroked Hua Cheng’s face, and said, “…… met you again.”

Flower City smiled back and said, “I said, trust me.”

Xie Ren sighed, “Are we, in a way, waiting for each other for another round of 800 years?”

Flower City said, “Didn’t I say, no matter how long it takes, I will always wait for you. But ……”

He pulled Xie Ren up. The two of them stood face to face, Hua Cheng held his hand tightly and smiled, “I don’t want to be separated for a moment at all now.”

The past cannot be changed.

Eight hundred years ago, Xie Ren, the seventeen-year-old pride of heaven, did not yet know what awaited him in the future. Heaven’s destiny gave him two doors. A glimpse of the Divine Martial Path, and the Bridge of One Thought to meet the Devil and meet the Immortal. He opened them all.

After that, he would be alone in the midst of a frenzy of powerlessness, struggling through long years of torment. Pain, anger, disappointment, hatred, despair, madness. The heart is like ashes.

And then the die is cast.

But those are in the past.

–

“Brother, welcome back.”

“Well ……”

“See, I wasn’t lying when I said you’d meet me again.”

Xie Ren glanced at Hua Cheng and said, “Is that so?”

Hua Cheng smiled, “Of course, why have I ever lied to Your Highness? Brother me ……”

“……”

“……”

Xie Ren put his hand into Hua Cheng’s arms, took out a piece of paper, and read, “‘Thanks to Brother Sanlang for taking care of me, Ren is unable to return the favor, and would like to make a slight effort to help my brother with his worries, and leave for the time being. Brother Sanlang don’t worry, Rei will go and return.'”

Hua Cheng raised one side of his eyebrow and crossed his arms without saying anything. After Xie Ren finished reading, she raised her eyebrows like him and said, “Brother Sanlang, good brother. You are really good.”

Hua Cheng laughed and said, “Isn’t it clear to my brother whether I’m good or not?”

Xie Ren’s face slightly reddened and vaguely said, “…… Not sure what you are talking about. Anyway, you’ve gone too far in the past two days, reflect on that.”

Hua Cheng said seriously, “Brother, you can’t be like this. I’ve been treating you with courtesy for the past two days, and it’s been so hard to endure.”

Xie Ren said: ”Which you have treated with courtesy, you obviously …… obviously just …… ”obviously just fooled him to fool him very happily.” Think of these two days into naive, silly, pampered seventeen year old little fool, to the flower city to flip around to play, Xie Ren now remember the process clearly, simply can not look at themselves, can not help but groan | a, cover the forehead. Flower City, on the other hand, said in a serious manner: ”Really. Even if my brother calls me a despicable and shameless bastard, Sanlang has no regrets.”

“……”

“Brother can scold me again if he’s upset. It’s okay with Miroku.”

Xie Ren really couldn’t listen anymore.

He covered his forehead and quietly slipped away, Hua Cheng, one side of the head, the person was out of sight, said, “Brother? Don’t run, okay, my bad, brother!”

Stop calling me brother!