Chapter 6

As the earth trembled, meteors rained down, and the world underwent a massive change, Yuan Dian was shocked, but he knew it was an irresistible natural disaster. Yuan Dian was merely stunned for a moment, as Miyang City remained unscathed, untouched by the chaos. Someone had used supreme magic to protect the city, and Yuan Dian was only surprised by this.

However, the absence of his grandfather, with whom he had lived every day, filled Yuan Dian with fear.

Since he could remember, his grandfather had never left him, almost always by his side. Even when guiding him into the path of cultivation, his grandfather had never been absent like this. When he returned home, there was no response at all.

"Grandfather, Grandfather, I'm back, Grandfather, Grandfather..."

Yuan Dian called out again, searching the entire place, but found no trace of his grandfather. The damaged green-scaled snake sinew saw and the half-sawn iron pine wood were still there, untouched. There was no food on the table. After carefully observing the entire wood carving workshop and their living quarters, Yuan Dian was certain that his grandfather had left the previous night.

Suddenly, Yuan Dian's heart trembled as if he remembered something. He stopped calling out and quickly went to the rows of finished wood carvings in the workshop. From under a tall shelf, he took out a three-foot-tall wooden carving of a boy, naked and smiling. At the same time, he recalled the words his grandfather had told him on the day he entered the path of cultivation.

"Yuan Dian, the path of cultivation is endless and fraught with dangers. If one day you find that I have suddenly left, you must check your wooden carving."

At the time, Yuan Dian didn't think much of it, just nodding slightly. He never thought his grandfather would leave him. The wooden carving his grandfather told him to find was a carving of himself as a child.

Looking at the wooden carving with its raised hands, chubby face, wide smile, round buttocks, and small penis, Yuan Dian sighed, "Was I really this cute when I was little?"

Then, Yuan Dian turned the wooden carving around, examining it from all sides, but found nothing unusual. He considered breaking it, but hesitated, thinking of his childhood self. He twisted the arms and legs, patted the buttocks and belly, but still found nothing unusual.

Finally, when he had no other options, he gently touched the small penis, which resembled a silkworm cocoon. Suddenly, there were a few "cracking" sounds from the wooden carving. Then, to his shock, a crack appeared on the belly, which then opened up, revealing an empty cavity. Inside was a small scroll less than a foot long and a smooth, green jade communication tablet.

"Grandfather's carving skills are truly remarkable, to have set up such a mechanism. How did I not notice it before?" Seeing the belly of the wooden carving open, Yuan Dian sighed. Thinking about the method of touching the small penis to activate the mechanism, he felt a strange sense of depression and sighed, "Grandfather is really cunning."

Taking out the scroll and the jade tablet, Yuan Dian put the wooden carving back and frowned as he examined the two items. He then picked up the jade tablet, turning it over and slowly extending his divine sense to try to read its contents.

"Damn, it's extracting divine sense."

As soon as Yuan Dian extended a thread of divine sense, he felt his spirit tremble, and his divine sense dimmed significantly, with nearly a third of it forcibly extracted into the jade tablet.

Struggling to steady himself, Yuan Dian was drenched in cold sweat. Before he could react, his grandfather's voice came from the jade tablet:

"Yuan Dian, the world is undergoing a massive change, and a powerful enemy has arrived. I can only tell you a few things briefly. You must remember them clearly."

"Your name is Yuan Dian. You are a direct descendant of the ancient Yuan family in the Inner Heaven of the Xuanhuang Mortal World. When you were born, your family was in turmoil, and your parents entrusted me to take you away. You..."

His grandfather's voice suddenly stopped, and then a狂暴的声音传来：“哈哈……牛福，你对自己的主子可真是忠心啊！对自己更是够狠，竟然自消修为……”

这个声音也没有说完，接着是一声爆炸和冷哼声，随即爷爷的话音伴随着那个狂暴的声音快速地响了起来：

“收好卷轴和命牌，那是你的依仗，尽快强大，找寻你父亲，回归家族……”

“牛福，看你的阵法能撑多久，看……”

“你父亲被困在玄黄中天紫琼大陆的囚生岛，修为不到……砰”

随着一声巨响，话音到此消失，玉简随后发出一声清脆的碎裂声，化为了碎片。看着破碎的玉简，袁典一时陷入了茫然，满脑子中浮现的只是几个关键的词语。

“爷爷、父亲、母亲、玄黄凡界、玄黄内天、玄黄中天、紫琼大陆、囚生岛、远古世家、袁家、卷轴、命牌……”

这些词语出现在袁典的脑海中，令他一时没有回过神来。忍受着剧烈的头痛，他用力揉了揉额头两侧，竭力保持镇静，开始梳理起来：

爷爷突然失踪，仇家来袭，而木雕坊完好无损，看来爷爷引开了强敌，只是不知爷爷有没有危险。

那个狂暴的声音称爷爷为牛福，还提到了自消修为，这是他第一次听说关于爷爷的名字。加上主子、仆从之类的话语，看来爷爷也有自己的隐秘，很可能与自己没有血缘关系，但却是自己亲近之人。

玉简中提到了自己的父母，尤其是父亲被困，这更是他第一次听说。

从懂事的孩童时代起，袁典曾无数次问起爷爷关于父母的事情，但得到的回答总是他们外出学习高超的木雕工艺去了，就连左邻右舍也是这样说。

到最后，袁典不再问，因为无论他如何求证，答案只有一个：他有父母，只是外出学习高超的木雕工艺去了。

直到两年前，在自己踏入修真道路之时，爷爷曾隐晦地提到过，他的父母也是修士，而且修为极为强大。但没等袁典问起什么，爷爷随即闭口，再也没有提到父母一个字。直到今天，他从玉简中得到了一点关于父母的消息。

“我来自远古世家袁家，父母也是修士，而且父亲现在被囚，看来这里面有着诸多谜团了。”

袁典已经不是孩子，强打着精神理清了一些头绪，随后想到了玄黄凡界、玄黄内天、中天、紫琼大陆、囚生岛等词语。

虽然踏入修真界已有两年，但这些词语所代表的地名，袁典知之甚少。玄黄凡界、内天、中天、囚生岛，他从未听说过。

他只知道自己的地方被称为琼雷大陆，至于紫琼大陆，他只听说过一次，据说是一处比琼雷大陆大了不知多少万倍的大陆，但仅限于此，其他一无所知。

爷爷曾告诉他，修真世界广阔无边，琼雷大陆不过是一处极小极小，小到可以忽略不计的地方。此时听到爷爷玉简中的留言，袁典别无他法，只能默默记住了这几个对他来说至关重要的地名。

“卷轴，命牌，对，还有这个没看呢？”稳定了一下心神，袁典将目光转向了那小巧的卷轴。

握在手中，顿时感到一股丝丝暖意。缓缓打开卷轴，袁典双目猛然睁大，嘴巴微张，显然不敢相信眼前所见。

小巧的卷轴打开后有两尺多长，卷轴的中心镶嵌着一只三寸多宽的褐黄色圆形木牌。木牌古朴至极，上面雕刻着一个庄重典雅的“袁”字。除此之外，最奇特的是袁典在上面没有发现任何字迹。

正当袁典准备探查时，褐黄色木牌散发出一道微弱的黄芒贴附在袁典的面容上，三息时间不到，黄芒渗入袁典的身体，接着木牌从卷轴上飞起，悬浮在袁典面前缓缓转动起来。

此时，袁典看到了木牌的背面，同样的字迹雕刻着一个庄重的“典”字，前后合起来正好是他的名字袁典。

看着悬浮在自己面前的木牌，袁典缓缓伸出手掌将其握在手中。在手掌与木牌接触的那一刻，袁典体内的血脉猛然狂暴，差点冲出，但仅仅一瞬之后随即归于平静。

此时此刻，袁典感受到了一股来自血脉的认可，仿佛在这一刻，他的生命被某种无形的力量注视起来，无法消弭。

……

就在袁典握住褐黄色木牌的一瞬间，在破碎玉简中提到的玄黄内天中，一处庞大的庙堂深处的一间巨大居室的一面墙壁上，悬挂着上百只像袁典手中那样的褐黄色木牌，都散发着微微的黄芒。

突然，最下方一排刻着“袁典”二字的木牌在这一刻，猛然发出了一道刺眼的黄芒，随即像被点亮的油灯一样，像其他木牌一样，开始一闪一闪地散发出微弱的黄芒。

同时，在这一刻，墙壁对面端坐的两位古稀老者同时睁开了眼睛。其中一位白发老者轻声说道：“是逸轩的儿子，这可是同龄人中最晚开启命牌的啊！若是这样，还能赶上他那些兄弟姐妹吗？”

“三哥，家族出了些事，逸轩经历了些变故，他的儿子现在不在家族之内。”白发老者说完，另一位黑发老者回应了一句。

听到黑发老者如此一说，白发老者微微点了点头，闭上了双目，轻声说道：“逸轩若是度过此难也是一场造化，只是苦了他那儿子了。”

随后不再言语，黑发老者也没有再说什么，两人再次进入入定之中，一切再次归于平静。