Dongchen Village has become a nationally famous fairyland, with colorful flowers and fruit trees everywhere. Every household grows very special crops. My mother said that these are magical rice, wheat and sorghum, and that eating them can prolong the life of mortals.
By the way, A Niang is a true fairy. With a wave of her hand, she can make the flowers bloom and the fruit trees ripen.
As a result, our whole family learned magic from her.
Because my mother opened the immortal veins for everyone in the family and taught us how to practice.
But afterwards, people kept coming to Dongchen Village to seek immortals and ask for advice, which annoyed the local villagers. So A Niang set up a magic circle inside and outside the village, and only outsiders who had reported the matter could enter and leave freely.
This stirred up a hornet's nest. The emperor somehow found out about it and made a special trip to Dongchen Village. He then refused to leave and abdicated the throne to his son Zhou Wuyang.
His concubines and their families were unhappy and started to make a fuss. Especially the old men and women, who cried and shouted that they also wanted to live in Dongchen Village with the retired emperor and said they wanted to protect his safety.
Humph! The emperor lives in the village. As long as he doesn't go out and wander around, it's safer than the palace. Why does he need a bunch of old men and women to protect him
What’s even more infuriating is that the imperial guards in the capital are also ready to take action and want to protect the emperor.
Dongchen Village is so small. If we let all of them in, wouldn’t they be squeezed like sardines
But nothing could stop people from seeking immortality, and everyone flocked to Dongchen Village, causing certain troubles to the surrounding villages and preventing them from farming in peace. So A Niang had to encircle the entire Qinchuan County and Zhouhe County with formations.
But this made the neighboring county unhappy and they kept crying outside the ban. Even the county magistrate and state officials wrote a memorial to the new emperor, reporting A Niang and saying that she only cared about her own family and didn't care about the lives of the neighboring counties.
I was puzzled. A Niang only enclosed her own fiefdom and did not hinder traffic. Moreover, A Niang left official roads for people to pass through, and also left special roads and waterways for people to drive or sail.
Later we learned that people in the surrounding areas discovered that the crops within the barrier were growing very rapidly, birds and beasts were running into the barrier, and the people living there were getting younger and healthier, and their lives were also very abundant. So they flocked to the two counties, and once they were allowed to enter, they refused to leave no matter what.
This resulted in a significant loss of population in the surrounding counties and towns, and local officials were very dissatisfied.
Fortunately, A'niang discovered this situation and reset the rules of the formation. No one except local residents were allowed to settle there.
This year, my parents and I went back to the village and visited the retired emperor and the concubines.
But he happened to meet the emperor and his son.
It turned out that the emperor's eldest son was already fifteen years old. He brought his eldest son to tell his father that he wanted to abdicate the throne to his eldest son.
The retired emperor naturally disagreed. He angrily accused his son of being irresponsible and wanted him to quit. But it was impossible unless he died.
The emperor looked at the increasingly youthful face of the retired emperor and said calmly, "Father, didn't you also pass on the responsibility to your son? Your son is already over 30 years old and doesn't want to waste any more time."
The retired emperor's beard was raised in anger. He pointed at the emperor and said, "I was already over sixty when I abdicated to you. How old are you now? Do you want to retire?"
The emperor said expressionlessly, "You promised your son that as long as he had an heir, you could do whatever I wanted in the future. Now I have completed my mission and trained the heir of the Zhou family until he is fifteen years old."
After a pause, the emperor looked at his son guiltily and continued, "Yier has accompanied my son to court since he was seven years old. After eight years, he has a thorough understanding of state affairs. Father, you don't have to worry about his young age. My son also attended court when he was fifteen."
Fifteen-year-old Zhou Yi was still very young. He looked at his father and then at his grandfather, and did not dare to refute.
Zhou Wuchang's face turned pale and he had nothing to say.
He did say those words, but he didn't expect his son to use those casual words to retaliate against him.
Forget it, let him do whatever he wants.
Zhou Wuchang asked coldly, "You abdicated at such a young age, what do you want to do in the future?"
The emperor lowered his eyelids and said, "My son wants to go out and travel with my aunt and Nuannuan."
Zhou Wuchang snorted: "Can you go whenever you want?" He also wanted to go, but before he could open his mouth, Yingbao left, and stayed gone for more than half a year.
At this moment, the eunuch came in to report that Princess Chuanhe came to visit with her daughter.
So when my mother and I walked into the palace of the retired emperor, we saw my brother Wuyang, who looked very surprised, and a teenage boy.
Afterwards, the emperor abdicated the throne to the fifteen-year-old Crown Prince Zhou Yi, and happily followed us into the Divine Palace.
Entering with him were dozens of guards, dozens of palace maids, and dozens of villagers.
A'niang wanted to grow spiritual rice and spiritual wheat in the divine palace, and needed a large number of helpers, so she selected a group of people who understood agriculture and opened their meridians.
Of course, after three years, A Niang would send them out to reunite with their families and give them some overseas products.
Today is the day for us to go to the beach for a picnic. My brother Wuhui and a group of brothers and sisters and I took a boat to the sea to fish.
First put down the shrimp cage given by my mother, then sprinkle a handful of special shrimp attractant powder, wait for a moment, and you will see many lobsters swimming over.
Wu Hui and Jiang Qile were so excited that they suppressed their joy and waited for half an hour before they started to fish out the cage.
Wow! There were several big lobsters in each cage. We only picked up those that were over five feet long and threw the ones that didn’t meet the standard back into the sea.
Brother Wuyang has a lower level of cultivation and is more reserved, so he helped us cook lobsters and oysters on the shore.
In fact, it was the guards who did the work, and he was directing them from the side.
Uncle Jiang Wu and Uncle Jiang Hu went fishing in the sea. Once they encountered an octopus that was bigger than a house. It immediately wrapped around their fishing boat. If it weren't for Daddy, they would have been dragged to the bottom of the sea.
We had such a vacation once a month, and my mother would take us to travel all over the world. But when the three-year period was up, those who were to be sent back would start crying and begging to stay in the Divine Mansion.
But these people are the imperial guards, and A Niang cannot keep them without permission, and there are many people queuing outside waiting to come in.
The same goes for Brother Wuyang. He must go back and let his father come in.
On the day before leaving, Brother Wuyang put the storage bag that A Niang gave him into his arms, and took out a lot of pearls and gave them to me.
He looked at me and said, "Nuan Nuan, this is what I found during the past three years of opening clams. I'm giving it all to you."
Each of those pearls is as big as a thumb, colorful and very beautiful.
I was about to take it, but Brother Wuhui took it instead. He grinned and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty. I like it very much."
As he spoke, he took out a lot of strange shells and stuffed them into Brother Wuyang's arms, "These were picked up by Nuannuan and I. The emperor will take them back for the ladies and the little princes to enjoy."
Brother Wuyang's face darkened, but he still took the shell.
His departing figure was very sad, and brother Wuhui's face also looked unhappy.
I was surprised and couldn't understand why they were doing this. Could it be that... they had some secret love between them
Afterwards, A Niang brought in many people, including the clan leader’s great grandfather’s family, and the teacher’s family.
When we went on vacation again, we found ourselves in a strange world, which was very similar to ours, but also different.
The market here actually sells people with strange looks, some with rabbit ears, some with sheep's heads and human bodies, and some with heads full of leaves.
A'niang said that they were all monsters that were captured by human monks and used as food.
I saw a cute little baby with a pair of small horns on its head, squatting in the corner of the cage and crying.
"Mom, they are so pitiful, please buy them." They are obviously in human form, and it is really cruel to treat them as food.
Finally, A Niang bought all the monsters in the market, released some back into the forests, and kept some in caves.
For the spirits that were taken into the cave, A-niang asked them to sign a contract with us, otherwise they would not be allowed to move around.
As a result, all the children in the cave had a cute pet.
My cute pet is the little elf with horns on its head. My mother said that he is a young green dragon, less than a hundred years old. When he reaches adulthood at the age of five hundred, he will be able to fly in the clouds. He will be a good mount.
I stroked the little kid's head, which was only up to his knees, and said to him, "You will be called Xiaoqing from now on." I pointed to the big white bird in Brother Wuhui's hand and said, "It's called Xiaobai. You two should get along well with each other in the future."
Later I found out that although they seemed to be in harmony on the surface, they were mortal enemies in secret.
Once my brother Wuhui and I weren't paying attention, the two of them would fight each other. Xiaoqing's head was broken, with white feathers stuck at the corners of its mouth. Xiaobai had a bald spot on his feathers, and there was a scale on his claws.
I was very confused, so I asked them.
The two of them stammered and gave a general idea. It turned out that the two races had always been enemies and often went to war with each other.
I was speechless and warned them that if they did it again, I would have to draw lots to send one of them away.
None of them wanted to leave here, so they could only reconcile temporarily.
Days passed, and suddenly one day, A Niang's divine palace expanded again, becoming larger than ten mortal worlds.
On the vast sea surface within the divine palace, a huge and magnificent palace appeared faintly.
That is the Dragon Temple.
This means that A Niang has become the new Dragon God, and her temple has become a stable plane.
Here, billions of plants and trees exude a bit of spiritual energy, and all kinds of spiritual beasts and birds appear one after another.
On this day, those dragon souls condensed into bodies, became real dragons, and flew to the Dragon Temple in the sea.
My mother brought my father and me to the temple, and I saw my Dragon God grandmother again.
She was wearing a long silver dress, her silver hair reached the ground, her face radiated a bright glow, and she was incomparably beautiful.
"Nuannuan." She called me.
I walked forward, stepping on a lotus with every step.
My grandmother handed me a golden dragon ball and said, "This is for you."
I was a little confused and turned to look at my mother.
Isn't today the day when my mother becomes a god? Why did you give me the dragon ball
Grandmother smiled and said, "Your mother already has one, this is a gift from me to you."
She then said to her mother, "My son, I am going to go out and look for your father. I will come back after I find him."
Ah Niang nodded and leaned her head against my grandmother. "Mother Goddess, please come back soon." Ah Niang put a golden bead into my grandmother's hand and said, "If there is any danger, Mother Goddess, just crush it and it will take you home."
The Dragon God touched A Niang's face, sighed, and disappeared in an instant.
Later I learned that my mother used one of her souls to condense into a pearl to open a passage for my grandmother to return home.
After several more years, the people living in the divine palace started to get married and gave birth to children with spiritual roots.
These children's cultivation speed is much faster than those who open their meridians in the later stage.
And A Niang also gave birth to two children, a younger brother and a younger sister.
This made my dad and the others very happy.
My two younger brothers and sisters were born with horns on their heads, just like the newly sprouted horns of a deer. They are so cute.
As soon as they learned to crawl, my cute pets would start to circle around them, fearing that they would bump into things or be bitten by the bugs on the ground.
But my younger brothers and sisters were too active and crawled very fast. If they were not careful, they would fall into the fish pond or bump into the flower pots.
For this reason, Xiaoqing was so worried that he even transformed into his original form to keep the two children under his protection.
A few years later, my younger brother and sister grew up and were almost as tall as Xiaoqing. When they called Xiaoqing "sister", I realized that Xiaoqing was a female.
When my younger brother and sister were ten years old, my mother asked me to go into seclusion in the Dragon God Temple and not to come out until I reached the Divine Transformation Realm.
Decades later, I finally achieved a breakthrough to the Divine Transformation Realm. Of course, this was all thanks to the Dragon Ball my grandmother gave me.
After reaching the Spirit Transformation Realm, I used the remaining dragon balls to cleanse Brother Wuhui's marrow, allowing him to cultivate to the Nascent Soul Realm as quickly as possible. In this way, we can travel together.
Not in the mundane world, but in the vast universe, or in the fairyland.
It is said that the fairy world has become depressed. Since the fall of the Wuji Sect, many aristocratic families have also been destroyed one after another because the spiritual energy there has been exhausted and it has gradually become a mortal place.
But it is a fairyland after all. Not only is its territory vast, but it also contains many unknown secrets.
We went there to explore the secret realm and find out the reason why the spiritual energy in the fairyland was depleted.
A Niang said that the fairy world used to be very prosperous and all races lived in peace. But since some time ago, human monks suddenly encircled and suppressed other races, causing many races to be destroyed one after another.
With the extinction of countless races, the spiritual energy of the entire fairyland gradually became scarce until it was exhausted, and half of the land gradually became a mortal world without any spiritual energy.
Those cultivators then turned their attention to the spiritual veins buried underground.
As a result, a large number of spiritual veins were dug out, and some were circulated as currency.
But no matter how many spiritual veins there are, they will eventually be dug up. After several years, human cultivators will set their sights on races with divine blood.
First the Phoenix clan was destroyed, then the Nine-tailed Fox clan, and finally they set their sights on the Dragon clan.
If my grandmother had not sent my mother's soul away at the critical moment, the dragon clan would probably have been extinct.
So, I want to go to the fairyland to take a look, and by the way, transplant some of the fruit trees and plants there into the divine palace.
A Niang said that there were many old trees in the fairyland that were thousands or tens of thousands of years old, which were all treasures of the fairyland. They withered one after another due to lack of spiritual energy. She had practiced the Changchun Jue, and maybe she could bring them back to life.
As for my younger brothers and sisters, when I come back, they should be grown up. Then we can go out traveling together and see the world.