Chapter 13

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“Teach me!” Finally, one day she couldn’t help anymore to just lay down on the mountain and shouted at him, “Please, big brother! Will you teach me?”

He ignored her, as if this annoying child didn’t even exist; the Red King’s only daughter couldn’t afford it, and she will go back to the Mansion with her father in a couple of days anyway.

It rained heavily that day, and envoys of the Emperor arrived to Jiuyi. They must have brought some bad news. The King’s face was solemn, and everyone gathered at the temple, leaving the child alone day and night. Once she was free, she sneaked out again and came to the Valley of the Kings at the back of the mountain. This time, however, she did not see him sitting on the white rock. The child couldn’t help being a little surprised. Even if it’s raining and windy, he is always hardworking and never absent. Why was he lazy today? It’s hard for her to come to see him in the rain!

After lying on the mountain for a long time, she couldn’t see anything and could only leave dejectedly with her umbrella. However, at the moment of turning around, something caught the corner of her dress. Looking back, the child was immediately frightened and screamed; the rain on the top of her head suddenly disappeared, and four huge eyes rose from the cliff and looked at her, their pupils colored red with blood, reaching her in a blinking of an eye.

“Oh… Four-eyed bird!” she exclaimed, trying to escape.

However, amidst the screams, Chongming Divine Bird grabbed the little girl’s skirt with his giant beak, picked her up, spread her wings and soared away! She screamed and struggled desperately, but after a moment she landed in a place unharmed. It was a cliff not far away from the white rock; there was a recessed concave grotto under the cliff. The bird picked her up and placed her gently at the entrance of the cave, then stared at her, tilting her head towards the inside.

“Huh?” She couldn’t help but glanced in. “What’s in there?”

The divine bird pushed the little girl in with her giant beak and made a low cooing sound, which turned out to be a hint of supplication, while her eyes were full of worry.

Zhu Yan was stunned for a moment: “Do you want me to go in? Why?”

The bird gave another cry, looked at her motionless with her four eyes, then suddenly turned her head, plucked off a feather from her wing and gently covered her body with it, and looked towards the grotto again.

“Huh?” She finally seems to understand, “Is this your reward for me?”

The bird nodded and continued to look inside nervously, but dared not to go in.

“What’s going on?” Zhu Yan was timid but courageous, she scratched her head, and walked in.

The opening of the cave was very small. It only allows one person to go in and out. The ground was flat, and there were obvious signs that some people often walked through it.

The road was very dark, she fumbled around the stone wall, and stumbled away for a long time before she reached the innermost point. The center suddenly opened up. There was a small stone room lit with a lamp, clean and tidy. The floor was covered with dead leaves, an old blanket, and a firepit, much like the resting place of those ascetic monks she had seen in the desert.

Does that elder brother live here alone? Isn’t it hard?

She walked all the way in and finally saw the young man in the depths of the cave. He sat on a stone platform, facing the wall, bowing his head slightly, as if spitting on his knees, motionless.

“Huh? There you are!” She was a little surprised, but breathed a sigh of relief. “Why don’t you go out and practice today? Your four-eyed bird seems to be worried about you… Hello?”

He faced the stone wall without speaking.

You’re not asleep, are you? The little girl went over and pushed him boldly.

“Don’t touch me!” Suddenly, the teenager shouted sharply. Trembling with fear, she took a step back and almost hit the stone wall.

“Who let you in?” The boy didn’t look at her, but lowered his voice and said, “Get out!”

His tone was fierce, but Zhu Yan recognized that his voice was shaking and his shoulders were trembling, as if he was trying his best to endure some great pain. She couldn’t help but move over while asking, “What’s the matter with you?… Are you sick?”

When she got closer, she couldn’t help but remain speechless: “Oh, my God!… Why are you crying?”

The beautiful brother sat facing the stone wall, pale, with tears in the corners of his eyes; his hands on his knees trembled slightly, clenched into fists, and the back of his hands was dripping with blood. On the stone wall in front of him, one by one densely packed, there was full of his bloody palm prints!

“You!” The little girl was stunned, stretched out her hand and stammered, “What… What’s going on?”

“Get Out!” As if he could no longer control his emotions, the young man roared furiously, and the moment she reached him, he suddenly picked her up by her clothes: in an instant, a great force surged in, almost like a huge wave, throwing the little girl up high in the air, then kicking her out from the room in an instant.

Before Zhu Yan could even utter a cry of surprise, she crashed into the stone wall. In just a moment, everything in front of her went dark.

When she woke up, she didn’t know how long it had been since she fainted. Her head hurt and her eyes were blurred. Someone was holding her into his arms and calling her by name, eager and anxious. Every time she was about to fall asleep, he will shake her, chanting strange spells into her ears, while pressing his hand on the back of her heart.

“Don’t sleep.” She heard the brother whispering into her ear, “Wake up!”

Gradually, she felt lighter and her eyes brightened.

Finally, the child woke up and opened her eyes. What caught her eye was the blue sky and the white clouds, as close as reaching them with her hand. The wind was blowing gently on her face. In that moment, she couldn’t help but cheered in surprise, stretched out her hand, and wanted to catch that cloud: “Wow! I… Am I flying in the sky?”

“Don’t move.” Someone whispered into her ear and stopped her. The child turned her head in surprise and found that she was being held into the arms of the teenager. With the wind whistling in his ears, he was sitting on the back of the divine bird, tightly holding her small body, and kept pressing his right hand on the back of her heart. His face was pale, he seemed to be extremely tired, and his whole body was trembling.

Yes, this boy, who could know what a terrible thing just happened.

After more than ten years of no news, bad news suddenly came from the Imperial Capital. The only relative he had left in the world has been separated from each other. Despite years of hard work and cultivation, he still could not completely wipe out the anger and hatred from his heart. He only felt that the fire of karma in his heart was burning, and he could only burn his heart to ashes!

He entered the cave alone, drove Chongming out, and sat alone facing the wall for three days and nights, trying to extinguish his demons. The valley was empty, with only the deceased to accompany him, so he shouted uncontrollably, yelled, screamed and punched the stone wall, vented his anger and pain, but he still could not control the hatred in his heart.

However, at this time, the little girl unexpectedly fell from the sky and broke into the cave!

She came over and tried to comfort him. However, he lost the reason in the moment of rage and completely lost control of himself. He just flung up his sleeve and threw the child out like a doll; by the time his mind realized what he has done and tried to rush and protect her, it was too late. He watched helplessly as she bumped into the stone wall like a broken porcelain doll.

How did this happen?! At that moment, the teenager who had been sitting for many days, finally jumped up in surprise, ran to her and picked her up, then rushed out of the cave with the dying child in his arms; jumped onto the divine bird, and flew desperately to Menghua Peak in the northwest, completely forgetting the anger and hatred that engulfed his heart a moment ago.

Along the way, he kept chanting spells, maintaining her faltering glimmer of life, bordering on madness. Before sunset, he finally got to Menghua Peak and rescued her with Huanyang grass.

When the child reopened her eyes into his arms, he breathed a long sigh of relief, tears slipping down his emaciated cheeks, only to feel that his mind was on the verge of collapsing.

“Ah? Don’t cry, what… what’s going on?” Zhu Yan raised her hand, wiped his cold face with her little fingers and comforted him with a thin voice, “Has anyone bullied you? Don’t be afraid. My father, is the Red King, and he is very powerful!”

He shook his head slowly, grabbed her hand and moved it away from his face. However, the little girl persevered and moved her little hand back onto his face. In the end, he finally stopped resisting and let the child rest her warm little hand on his forehead.

“Here,” the child who narrowly escaped death looked at him and said in a happy tone, “you have a beauty tip. My mother, the Imperial Concubine, also have it!”

“…” The boy didn’t speak, and turned his face silently.

“My mother, the Imperial Concubine said that the person who has the beauty tip is the real beauty. Too bad I don’t have it. It’s my father’s fault! He is so ugly.” The little girl touched her forehead regretfully, looked at him again, and asked with concern, “What’s the matter? You’re shaking a lot. Is it too cold in the sky? Hurry back to the ground, add a piece of clothes and drink some hot soup… By the way, does anyone make soup for you? Where is your A-niang?”

She asked repeatedly, raised her hand to touch his forehead, thinking he had a fever.

“…” The young man was silent for a moment, and suddenly his shoulders began to tremble violently, and could no longer suppress a sob. He hugged the child in front of him firmly, bent down deeply, and buried his face on her tunic; he suddenly lost control in an instant, and said something vaguely, like shouting, like a curse, and every word sounded like a sharp cut.

“What’s the matter? What’s going on?” She was frightened and kept asking, “What’s the matter with you, big brother?”

Above the nine heavens, the divine bird spread its wings, and the young man buried his head into her arms, crying silently. She was panicked and wiped away his tears with her small fingers time and time again, but she couldn’t calm the tremor on his body.

His face was cold, but his tears were burning. What kind of world is buried into the heart of this lonely boy who is isolated from the rest of the world?

When the twilight was rising, he sent her back to Jiuyi Temple.

He took the child to the ground, put her back on the other side of the fence, raised his finger and paused in the middle of her eyebrows, as if trying to do something. Seeing the cold light in his eyes, she subconsciously stepped back with a surprised expression: “Big… big brother, what are you going to do?”

The teenager paused his fingers and said faintly, “I want you to forget me and forget what happened today.”

“No!” She jumped up. “I don’t want to forget you!”

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