The origin of the Desolate Moon Continent is that the moon here is completely different from the moons on other continents. The bright moon in the sky here is huge and desolate. It is five to six times the size of the moons on other continents and appears clearer and brighter...
On clear nights, the mountains that appear in the moonlight are so clear and desolate that even with the naked eye one can see the rolling mountains and the ravines of varying depths...
The crisscrossing gullies are deeply engraved in the hearts of every mortal on this continent, just like the bluestone bridge over the creek in my hometown, which leaves the mark of time and the memory of the past under the trampling of villagers...
The end of the year is a festive occasion that grows in the hearts of every mortal in the Wild Moon Continent. It is a festival of reunion, warmth, and grandness.
It is held in the middle of the twelfth month of each year, when the moon is at its fullest. People sing and dance under the full moon, take out the best monsters they have hunted in the year, and raise the best wine stored in their homes, and celebrate together as a whole city or as a family.
Under the bright moonlight, they stayed drunk, arm in arm, and talked about their lofty aspirations...
The talented men drank and wrote poems, expressing their lofty aspirations with great vigor and passion; the beautiful women played drums and passed flowers under the moon, expressing their feelings with their eyes, their hearts full of spring.
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At this time, the sky was getting dark and a huge full moon appeared in the sky.
Li Yan sat on the platform, gazing at the mountains in the distance that were already covered in a hazy green. He stared into the distance with a confused look, as if he wanted to travel thousands of miles back to the familiar foot of the Daqing Mountain.
Li Yan came out today not just to practice magic. When he saw the huge moon in the yard a few nights ago, it aroused his homesickness. Calculating the time, it is already the end of the year and the new year is about to come.
It has been more than a year since he left the mountain village. He spent the last year's New Year on the run. Although he missed his hometown at that time, he did not dare to slack off for the moment.
Today, looking at the full moon that is the same as in previous years, all kinds of thoughts come to my mind...
This morning, he had no mood to meditate, so he came to the platform early to practice magic while waiting for the bright moon to rise.
Li Yan stared blankly into the distance. The sound of firecrackers should be heard everywhere in the village now!
The golden and fragrant offerings of monsters should also be placed under the old locust tree at the entrance of the village. The children in the village are drooling over these offerings, chasing and playing around in circles.
Then, amid the adults' scolding, they ran to the end of the village. After a while, they ran back to the village amidst the hustle and bustle.
Everyone would look at the full moon in the sky from time to time, hoping that it would rise above the top of the old willow tree as soon as possible, so that they could start worshiping their ancestors and then have a feast.
The village chief would hold a bowl of wine and drink with every man in the village, and would pat every child on the head, asking them to grow up quickly! In the middle of the night, some drunk people would hug the old willow tree and sleep soundly, sleeping under the huge moon until dawn.
Daddy rarely smiled, took a few puffs of his cigarette, drank a few sips of liquor with a group of old friends, and occasionally pointed his pipe at his children and said a few words.
The third brother limped over to sit beside his father, looking at him with a smile and occasionally whispering a few words, most of the time asking him to drink less.
Mother and fourth sister were as busy as other women in the village, serving delicious meat and steamed buns in a continuous stream. Occasionally, when they met young men from the village, mother and the aunts would laugh and point fingers at them.
He would find his own girls in the crowd and whisper a few words to them from time to time. The fourth sister, like the other young girls in the village, would always blush after hearing those words, and then continue to serve food after being embarrassed.
The young men in the village blushed and looked at the fourth sister and the others amid the noise...
Li Yan just stared blankly into the distance, all kinds of thoughts running through his mind, and before he knew it, tears were streaming down his face.
After a long time, Li Yan withdrew his gaze and looked up at the huge bright moon above his head that seemed to be very close. Familiar faces seemed to appear in the full moon.
He raised his hand to wipe away his tears, stood up facing the moon, straightened his clothes, then knelt down respectfully, muttering.
"Dad, Mom, Happy New Year... Happy New... Year..."
Then he kowtowed several times on the ground.
Just as he was about to stand up, a somewhat cold but hesitant voice came from behind him.
"You... among you mortals, do you really have the concept of the New Year's Eve?"
Upon hearing this, Li Yan stood up suddenly and turned around.
"who?"
When he looked back, he saw a tall and graceful woman in white standing on the edge of the platform behind him, looking at him hesitantly.
"It's you?"
Li Yan was caught with his secrets, and he immediately became furious, with a hint of accusation in his words.
At this time, the moonlight was as silver as silver, filling the platform. The light was very good. Li Yan could see the person coming at a glance. It was the senior sister from Buli Peak, Zhao Min, whom he had met a few months ago!
Zhao Min was standing at the edge of the bamboo forest on the path leading to the platform, her white clothes fluttering in the wind. Her handsome face, as if carved from white jade, was even more holy and white under the moonlight.
Under a pair of thick black eyebrows, a pair of black and white eyes still had a bit of coldness, and were looking at Li Yan.
"Why? Can't I come here?"
Seeing Li Yan's stern tone, she couldn't help but frown slightly.
Li Yan frowned after hearing this, but then he remembered where he was.
"Yeah, this isn't my little bamboo courtyard, why can't they come here?"
But he still asked the question the next moment, but his tone had softened.
"This is Xiaozhu Peak. It seems that the disciples from the other four peaks only go halfway up the mountain. Normally, disciples from other peaks don't come here." In the past few months, he had only met disciples from other peaks halfway up the mountain. Except for the small paths he had seen, those people never stayed in other places in Xiaozhu Peak, as if there were some restrictions.
Therefore, when he received the spirit stones, he asked his second senior brother in the main hall and learned that those small paths were, as he had guessed, the places where Xiaozhu Peak went on missions, and the disciples from other peaks were obviously here to carry out missions.
"You do know something, but can't I come to this back mountain?"
Obviously, the girl in white was somewhat dissatisfied with Li Yan's previous attitude.
"This? Not really... it's just that there are few disciples from other peaks coming to this back mountain!"
Li Yan hadn't really asked his senior brother whether disciples from other peaks were not allowed to come here. It was just that he had never seen a disciple from other peaks before. In addition, his secret was exposed just now, so he blurted it out in a hurry. Now he felt as if he was in the wrong and couldn't help scratching the back of his head.
Seeing him like this, Zhao Min couldn't get angry anymore. She just followed her heart today and came here involuntarily. After hearing what Li Yan said, she was a little curious.
She had heard about the "New Year's Eve" among mortals since she was a child. It seemed very grand and lively, and people took it very seriously, but she had never seen it.
"Oh, this is the place I used to come here often, but later I was no longer in Xiaozhu Peak, so I came here less often! You are right, disciples from other peaks in the back mountain of Xiaozhu Peak are not allowed to come here."
Although Zhao Min's tone was gentle, it still sounded cold. As she spoke, she had already walked onto the platform with light lotus steps, and slowly walked to the edge of the platform, facing the huge full moon.
Li Yan was stunned and thought to himself.
"Hearing what she said, it seems that she was also a disciple of Xiaozhu Peak before. Could she be one of those disciples who left Xiaozhu Peak? If so, it is not surprising that she can come here, and she seems to come here very often."
The beautiful woman in front of Li Yan was standing on the edge of the cliff, looking at the huge moon with a dazed look in her eyes. After a moment, she looked at the rolling mountains in the distance under the night sky.
The silvery moonlight sprinkled on her body, and her face carved from white jade was glowing with a delicate white light, giving people a smooth texture.
Zhao Min stood facing the wind, the mountain breeze blew up her sleeves and made them flutter backwards, wrapping her body tightly, making her breasts look more firm and her long, straight legs stand out.
For a moment, Zhao Min under the moonlight was like a fairy from the Moon Palace descending to the mortal world. Li Yanzhi looked at her in a daze.
After Zhao Min asked the question, she immediately fell into her own thoughts. After a while, when she withdrew her dazed gaze, she did not hear any movement behind her, and she couldn't help but frowned.
She turned her head to look diagonally behind her, and when she saw Li Yan looking like a fool, staring at her blankly, her face flushed and she spat lightly.
Li Yan was awakened from his dream when he heard the spitting sound. His face turned red. He coughed twice and answered quickly to divert his attention.
"Sister Zhao... Senior Sister Zhao, we do have this 'New Year's Eve' in our place. I haven't been to other places that are too far away, but I heard from people in the village who have traveled far that they have seen it too.
But? But it seems that there is no New Year's Eve celebration in this sect. After I came out today, I didn't see any New Year's Eve decorations or atmosphere. "
"Inside the sect? The New Year? Humph, the monks in the sect practice cultivation, and there is no warmth and coldness in the human world... Can you tell me about the New Year in the mortal world?"
After hearing this, a trace of disdain appeared on Zhao Min's white jade face. She snorted lightly from her pretty nose, paused for a moment, and then asked softly.
Li Yan felt somewhat confused after hearing this.
"This Senior Sister Zhao actually said something so disrespectful to the sect. She is really brave. She is not afraid of being heard by others in the sect. If the elders and the Law Enforcement Hall knew about it, it would be bad."
"Has Senior Sister Zhao never been to a mortal town? Did she grow up in an immortal sect?"
Li Yan had a lot of questions in his mind, but he just thought about it and didn't ask any further questions. At the same time, he thought to himself.
"It seems that this senior sister entered the sect earlier than the seventh senior brother. The seventh senior brother was discovered by the sect and accepted when he was twelve years old. This senior sister may have entered the sect when she was young or when she was young and ignorant."
After hearing what Li Yan said, Zhao Min was silent for a while, and actually sat down on the edge of the platform. She hung her long legs in the air outside the platform, shaking them gently.
He raised his head and looked at the night sky filled with silver light in the distance, muttering to himself.
“I have never stayed in a mortal town, but I heard from some brothers and sisters that it is very peaceful and lively there, working from sunrise to sunset, day after day, year after year;
Relatives and friends often get together, children play around their parents’ knees, holding lanterns and chasing and playing with playmates of the same age, and the whole family can often happily gather around a table and talk... But I have only heard of it, I have never experienced it! ”
Li Yan stood behind Zhao Min, looking at her pretty back and listening to her murmurs. He couldn't help but think of his hometown, his sister and his playmates in the village.
He unknowingly walked forward a few steps and came to the edge of the platform, and sat down on the other edge of the platform some distance away from the girl in white.
He sighed in his heart. When he saw the girl's back in the moonlight, he actually felt that she was a little lonely.
Li Yan's heart suddenly calmed down. After thinking about it, he realized that what she asked was just a folk custom that almost everyone knew. Besides, he didn't want to go back early today, so he spoke softly.
“Mortals have their own joys, but they also have their own joys and sorrows.
My hometown is at the foot of Daqing Mountain, a million miles away from here. The village is not big, with dozens of households. The village is surrounded by terraced fields, and there are a few old locust trees at the entrance of the village...
When the end of the year comes, it is almost spring, and the rapeseed fields outside the village are in full bloom, with various wild flowers scattered among them.
On the last day of the year, every family began to prepare the most sumptuous food of the year early in the morning. The children played in the village, while my mother, sister and aunts from the same village took out monster meat and flour from their homes.
They started cooking or frying all kinds of delicacies early in the morning, with smoke rising and the aroma filling the village; while my father and third brother worked with other villagers to tidy up the ancestral temple, place offerings, and clean the house... "
Under a bright full moon, the surroundings were so quiet that only the breeze was blowing quietly. A boy and a girl were sitting on the edge of the platform, looking up at the bright moon and talking.
The huge moon hung in the sky, and the clear light it cast seemed to contain the two figures in a white circle. Occasionally, the girl would ask a question softly, and Li Yan would slowly narrate the ordinary life in the mortal world...