Mortal Seeking Immortal

For several days, except for the time when the school was closed for rest, Ye Zhou would get up early every day to go to school with Xiaohua. After school, he would go home to help his parents do some work within his ability.

During the holidays, Ye Zhou would go up the mountain with Xiaohua to pick various medicinal herbs and wild fruits, and sell them to supplement the family's income. Life was plain and happy.

At dusk when the sun was setting and the sky was bloody, Ye Zhou came down the mountain with Xiaohua, carrying a basket full of wild fruits and medicinal herbs. When they reached the halfway point of the mountain, Ye Zhou looked at the curling smoke rising from various places in the village under the setting sun and suddenly stopped.

A gust of evening breeze with the remaining warmth of the sun blew towards Ye Zhou from the mountains and forests, bringing Ye Zhou a faint and refreshing coolness. Ye Zhou took a deep breath and smelled the smell of burning firewood brought by the evening breeze. He looked up in the direction of his own courtyard in the distance, but he could not see anything except a wisp of smoke.

Xiaohua, who was walking in front, saw that it was getting dark, so she stopped and urged Ye Zhou: "Ye Zhou, it's getting dark. My father said that it's not safe in the forest after dark. Wild beasts often appear. Let's go back quickly."

Ye Zhou put down his backpack, picked a ripe red wild fruit from the backpack, put it to his mouth and took a bite. A stream of sweet juice flowed into Ye Zhou's mouth along his lips and teeth. A smile appeared in Ye Zhou's eyes: "It's delicious."

Xiaohua looked at Ye Zhou in confusion, and seemed to urge Ye Zhou again, but heard Ye Zhou say : "Xiaohua, I'm not going back."

Xiaohua showed a hint of doubt in her eyes: "Not going back? Where do you want to go?"

Ye Zhou threw away the wild fruit in his hand, gently patted the dust on his hands, looked at the sunset in the distance and said: "Go to where I should go."

"I have stayed here for too long. I admit that every day I live here is the day I have dreamed of, but people can't live in fantasy all the time, right?"

Xiaohua asked doubtfully: "Ye Zhou, what are you talking about? Why can't I understand a word? "

Ye Zhou smiled and shook his head: "I am very happy to see my parents again here and accompany them for a while, which fulfilled my dream."

Hearing this, the doubts on 'Xiaohua's face disappeared instantly. She looked straight at Ye Zhou and asked curiously: "When did you realize that this was an illusion?"

Ye Zhou said calmly: "On the first day, from the white flour pancakes my mother brought to me, I had a little doubt. You may not know that in our family, even if there is a bumper harvest, my parents can't bear to eat white flour every day."

"After that, some past memory fragments kept flashing in my mind, and these fragments made me finally determine that this is an illusion."

'Xiaohua' suddenly realized: "So that's it, your obsession with the immortal way is so deep, these are all obsessions imprinted in your soul. Then why didn't you expose me these days? "

"Because, I want to take advantage of this illusion to accompany my parents more. "

After Ye Zhou said, he sincerely thanked 'Xiaohua'.

‘Xiaohua’ waved his hand in frustration and said, “Forget it, let’s go quickly. It’s not fun. It’s unfortunate for me to meet someone as obsessed and sensitive as you. You have passed this level. You are the fastest one among all the cultivators.”

As soon as ‘Xiaohua’ finished speaking, Ye Zhou saw the surrounding environment began to shatter and fall like a broken mirror. He subconsciously looked in the direction of his home and saw a man and a woman leaning against each other, smiling and waving goodbye to him.

Ye Zhou choked in his throat, knelt on the ground and kowtowed to ‘Father and Mother’, saying silently, “Father, Mother, goodbye, this time it’s really goodbye!”

Although this world is fake, the people in the world carry his feelings.

When the illusions shattered and disappeared, Ye Zhou found that he was in a wasteland. The spiritual power in his body was suppressed, and he couldn’t even cast a small spell.

This made Ye Zhou feel very insecure. Ye Zhou looked up and saw a wasteland surrounded by gray fog. The visibility was only two meters square. All the colors between heaven and earth disappeared here, leaving only gray, gray sky, gray fog, and gray earth.

Ye Zhou wanted to release his consciousness to explore the surrounding environment, but after his consciousness touched the gray fog around him, he could no longer move forward. Ye Zhou could only retract his consciousness obediently.

There was silence all around, only a faint sound of wind came from the front. Ye Zhou kept walking forward in the direction of the wind. After walking for an unknown period of time, the ground in front began to tilt. As soon as Ye Zhou took a step towards the slope, he felt a heavy pressure falling from the sky on him, making it difficult for him to move forward.

Ye Zhou gritted his teeth and continued to move forward. The pressure on his body became greater and greater. He could only take one step in the time he could take three steps.

Huh, huh, huh.

Ye Zhou's rapid breathing was heard all along the way. His cheeks were red, and big drops of sweat kept dripping down his forehead. The sweat dripped onto the gray ground and quickly soaked into the ground.

As Ye Zhou continued to move forward, the gray fog surrounding him became thinner and thinner. From the initial visibility of only two feet, Ye Zhou's visibility has now reached six feet.

Finally, after Ye Zhou walked forward for a long time, the surrounding gray fog retreated far away like encountering a flood beast. A tall monument appeared ten feet away from Ye Zhou. This monument was like a sharp giant sword piercing straight into the clouds. The surface of the monument was smooth, and there was no word engraved on it.

Although the stone tablet was not engraved with a single word, it had a magical power that would make people fall in love with it at a glance.

Perhaps because Ye Zhou was still far away from the stone tablet at this time, and because of his strong spirit, Ye Zhou quickly withdrew his consciousness from the stone tablet.

"Could it be that this stone tablet is the inheritance left by Senior Jin Yangzi?"

Ye Zhou was curious and wanted to go forward to observe it carefully. He ignored the heavy pressure on his body and continued to take a step forward. With a bang, a pressure twice as heavy as before fell on Ye Zhou, pressing Ye Zhou's waist and back to bend, and his body was about to kneel down to the stone tablet without words.

Fortunately, Ye Zhou quickly stabilized his body. He looked up at the stone tablet with dissatisfaction, straightened his chest, and took another step towards the stone tablet without words.

Boom!

Another pressure was pressed on him, but Ye Zhou continued to walk forward with his head held high!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Three pressures fell on Ye Zhou in succession, making his bones creak, as if he would be crushed into a meat pie in the next moment! But Ye Zhou still persisted!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Another series of pressures fell on Ye Zhou, and he could no longer hold on, falling to the ground with a bang. The heavy pressure on his body made Ye Zhou unable to breathe, but he looked at the stone tablet in front of him and didn't want to give up!