Legend of the Great Sage

The east is faint, and the sky is bright.

On the gradually fading sea, white seagulls flew by in groups.

Two rays of light streaked across the sky and landed on a small island on the horizon.

This is just the most common isolated island in the South China Sea. The only thing that is special is that there is a volcano on the island.

The volcano is not big, or very small, only two or three hundred feet high, emitting a black smoke column, and sometimes erupts, causing the entire island to vibrate.

Ruxin stood on the white sand beach, looked up at the small volcano, and slowly took off her mask, with a complicated expression on her face, as if she was trapped in a long memory, with unspeakable pain and happiness.

Li Qingshan looked at her quietly.

He asked Xiao An to go back to Savage Mountain first, and accompanied Ru Xin to the east, and came here all the way. Along the way, she didn't say a word, and he was silent with him.

Ru Xin took a deep breath, smiled a little reluctantly, "Come and see with me? Although there is nothing to see."

Li Qingshan said: "Lead the way ahead."

Ru Xin walked to the depths of the dense forest, followed by Li Qingshan, watching her stretch her arms like a child, her fingertips gliding over the trees beside her, those ordinary branches and leaves seemed to record distant memories.

The field of vision suddenly widened, and a clearing suddenly appeared among the dense forests. It is an open space, but there are no trees. In the waist-deep grass, under the slanting sunlight, there is a small wooden house, covered with moss and entwined with vines. It is already dilapidated, but you can still feel a kind of exquisiteness. The original owner must have given up a lot of thought.

Ru Xin glanced back, as if to confirm that Li Qingshan was still behind her. The expression on his face was like that of a lost child, with indescribable weakness and confusion. Li Qingshan's heart tightened, and he stepped forward to hold her hand tightly, it was icy cold.

The two walked along the cobblestone path submerged in weeds to the door of the hut. The door was locked tightly and was already corroded, but the aura of magic still remained, protecting the hut from the infestation of wild beasts.

Ru Xin stretched out her hand and touched it lightly. There was a crash. The door lock was shattered, spiritual energy scattered, the door opened, and dusty memories rushed in...

Ru Xin seemed to have turned into a jade beauty. Standing in front of the hut. like a statue.

The cabin is not big. Everything was placed neatly, and the old owner didn't seem to be in a hurry, it was just a long journey. Looking forward to returning one day,

But that thick layer of dust silently showed that no one had returned.

Li Qingshan hesitated to speak, he didn't know what to do, he felt even more headache than facing the flame giant.

After a long time, Ru Xin whispered: "I'm back." She smiled at Li Qing Shan with tears in her eyes: "It's not as difficult as I imagined!"

"Here?" Li Qingshan wiped her tears carelessly with his big rough hands. Although he wanted to be gentle, the effect was not very good.

"Don't touch!" Ru Xin pushed his hand away: "The place where I was born is also my home."

"Do you think I like to touch it? It's as hard as a rock! Your family is really poor, no wonder you want to run away from home and go to Qingzhou to beg for a living!"

"Poor uncle, you know nothing!"

Li Qingshan chuckled: "As a majestic savage king, I don't have the same knowledge as a poor ghost. If you have anything to say, just say it quickly, I'm in a hurry!"

"Even if you beg me, I won't tell you!" Ru Xin gave him a hard look, and her eyes turned fiery red in an instant.

Li Qingshan was startled for a moment, but he understood a little bit, and sighed in a subtle way: "I beg you, sister Ruxin, just tell me!"

Ru Xin thought about it: "Well, since you begged me so much, it's just an old-fashioned story anyway, you already knew that I'm not pure mermaid blood, and half of me is a fire eater, from my father, you Don't look at me like that, I don't know what kind of madness they were in the first place? With the purity of their blood, it is obviously not easy to have offspring with the same race, I don't know what kind of bullshit joke God is playing, haha!"

"So, you are the flower of fire and water I'm looking for?" Li Qingshan understood a little bit, the elixir to reconcile fire and water was indeed only in her hands. The merman and the fire-eater are innate water and fire spirits. It is almost a miracle that they can reconcile water and fire and give birth to Ruxin.

"Are you out of your mind? I told you earlier that flowers of water and fire do not exist. I am a human being, not a flower!" Ru Xin's imageless "roar" startled the birds.

Li Qingshan touched his nose, Spirit Turtle Zhenhai, I will bear it!

Ru Xin scolded an idiot before explaining: "My mother has looked for hundreds of submarine volcanoes, but there is not even one. The legend is false."

"Your mother looked for it!?" Li Qingshan was slightly surprised.

"Do you think it's easy to reconcile water and fire?" Ru Xin talked about the distant childhood in a calm and nonchalant tone, but her voice couldn't help but sink.

A long time ago, the child born in this log cabin was dying from the day she was born, suffering from two forces, cold and fever attacks in turn, almost killing her.

Perhaps she wasn't the first fire-eater-merman hybrid—a "mongrel," as she called it—but none of them grew up to be known to the world.

Fortunately, her parents are strong enough to reconcile the water and fire for her without any time, energy or even lifespan. Whenever a fever breaks out, they suck their mother's fingertips and feed on the blood, and vice versa, to survive.

"Parents' love is indeed great!" Li Qingshan couldn't help but feel emotional when he heard this, and his heart moved, "In the elixir you refined, it wouldn't be..."

"You can call me mother." Ru Xin said lightly.

"Fuck you!" Li Qingshan suddenly hugged Ru Xin, and laughed loudly: "Good baby! From now on, whoever dares to hurt you except me, I will cut off his head!"

Ru Xin was speechless for a while, but her mood relaxed a lot inexplicably.

Li Qingshan said: "Come, come, let's tidy up here, we will have a bridal chamber tonight, and comfort your parents in heaven."

Ru Xin kicked him in the stomach: "Aren't you in a hurry? Consolation to your uncle!"

Some gags finally dilute the sad atmosphere a bit, Ru Xin stepped into the house, tidied it up, brushed off the thick dust, every piece of living utensils became alive again.

Li Qingshan didn't help either, and leaned against the door frame with his arms folded, he said with a smile: "I said no, but my body is quite honest?"

Before the words were finished, a clay pot was thrown over, "Get out of here!"

Li Qingshan propped his head in one hand and held a clay pot in the other, sitting on the stone steps at the door, opened his mouth and blew lightly, the weeds were cut off and flew to the sky by the wind, the courtyard suddenly became bright, showing wells, small In the creek, countless green insects spread their wings and soared.

He suddenly frowned, stood up, put the clay pot beside him, and felt a familiar breath approaching:

"What is she doing here? (to be continued)