"But it will take a long, long time..."
After hearing what the old turtle said, the little flounder replied dejectedly.
Jianchou's attention was finally drawn back.
Mr. Laogui Dongyuan looked at it, his voice full of kindness.
"But if you don't practice, you won't have Yumu and Zhoumu, so how can you see her when she's not here?"
The little flounder wagged its tail, circled around the old turtle, and returned to the old turtle. "I heard from the elders in the tribe that the life span of mortals is less than a hundred years. By the time I have cultivated well, will she have already..."
"The universe can see the past and present. If she grows old, you can still peek at her shadow in the long river of time..."
The old turtle finally moved, and slowly retracted its head, and finally slowly retracted into its shell.
A green glow immediately emanated from the water, and the old turtle completely concealed all its breath.
The little flounder knew that Mr. Dongyuan would not answer it again.
It swam slowly in the water. The two eyes of a newly born flounder were still growing on both sides. At this moment, the bones between the eyes had begun to soften. When it truly reached adulthood and cultivated successfully, the cosmic eyes would move towards the cosmic eyes, which is what people call "flounder".
The universe becomes one, and that is the world.
The same applies to flounder.
He seemed a little confused, muttering to himself: "Yeah..."
I feel that what Mr. Dong Yuan said makes a lot of sense.
Then, Jianchou saw the little flounder crossing the vast shallow sea and swimming towards the sea whose color was gradually getting darker.
It really started the practice.
Although, Jianchou didn't quite understand the flounder clan's cultivation.
Unlike cultivators, the monsters in the sea generally absorb the essence of nature and earth in the sea water for cultivation. Each cultivation period lasts for several days. However, after waking up from cultivation, this little flounder will still swim to the shore and wait for someone to arrive.
Jianchou couldn't help but think of the woman holding pearls in the painting.
Then, all the scenes in front of me suddenly turned into nothingness, and then gradually gathered together.
Her vision returned to the shore. A young girl wearing a simple light blue cloth dress and carrying a fish basket followed the adults in her family. She came to the beach step by step and walked along the beach, stepping on the beautiful shells one by one.
Under the sea, the flounder just looked at the girl on the shore.
It tried hard to jump out of the water, but it didn't have enough strength and couldn't help feeling frustrated.
The girl walked along the beach, and the flounder followed her all the way until the girl followed the adults to pick up some small fish that had fallen from the fishing boats near the sea and left. The flounder still looked in that direction until the moon rose over the sea, and then he finally left.
Every time the girl appears, she grows a little older.
Correspondingly, the flounder's cultivation level will be a little higher.
Gradually, the girl noticed its presence and would occasionally greet her.
At this time, the flounder was able to communicate with people through its demon consciousness, but because it was afraid of scaring her, it didn't speak and just stayed with her quietly.
They always met at the seaside when the moon was at its fullest.
The girl would come once a month and would gradually bring something for flounder.
She said that Arou was the daughter of a fisherman on the seaside, but her parents were sick and weak, and they could only make a living by picking up some seafood on her uncle's boat. She hoped that she could help her parents at home soon and go out to sea to fish in the future.
Flounder said nothing, but just looked at her silently and tenderly.
At this time, its two eyes had grown to the right, and it had become a very large flounder.
The girl's figure had become more slender, showing a kind of delicate and soft beauty. She left with a sigh, but the flounder waited until sunrise before swimming back into the sea.
Mr. Dong Yuan is still practicing in that place. He knows the most about things in the entire seabed.
Flounder approached again: "Mr. Dongyuan, I want to practice faster."
"Poor little flounder..."
The old turtle sighed deeply, but did not ask why. He only told it, "Go west for three hundred miles into the deep sea. In thirteen days, an underwater volcano will erupt. There is a great opportunity there. Do you dare to fight for it?"
"… "
Flounder's eyes lit up.
It swam three circles to the left and three circles to the right in front of the old turtle, and finally said firmly: "I'm going to give it a try."
So, taking advantage of the waves of the sea, it swam quickly towards the west.
A journey of three hundred miles is still too difficult for a flounder like this.
In Jianchou's opinion, the swimming process was just a short moment, but in the middle he experienced the ebb and flow of the tide, raging waves and whirlpools. Even if he was a flounder with a small level of cultivation, it would be difficult to resist the unpredictable sea.
It was once scarred by raging waves, and was once dizzy and disoriented by whirlpools, and even lost its way for a time...
But on the thirteenth day, it finally arrived.
In Jianchou's vision, there was only the raging magma rising from under the seabed veins.
Smoke suddenly appeared on the sea...
That's what a volcano looks like when it erupts.
A new island was thus formed on the sea.
The flounder was swept away by the boiling sea water, lost consciousness, and drifted far away.
But Jianchou knew that it had succeeded.
Because, in the next scene, he has transformed into a simple young man and came to the beach. The pair of feet that appeared in his illusion made him feel somewhat strange. He stepped on the beach as if he was stepping on the footprints left by the girl named Arou.
Here, flounder waited for many days, and Arou finally came again.
So, they finally "met".
Arou came to wait for the flounder, but this time she didn't get it. Instead, she got a young man who made her feel inexplicably fond of him.
They talked at the beach, talking about the flounder that Arou encountered and other things on the sea.
Ah Rou doesn’t know much about the mortal world, but in the flounder’s world, they are all very novel existences, and they are existences that Mr. Laogui Dongyuan rarely talks about.
The young man said that he was sent here by a lost ship and was homeless.
In the end, he followed the girl back home and became a helper in the small fisherman's family.
Everyone in the fishing village said that this was the husband that Arou's family found for Arou.
Although Arou blushed, she never denied it.
Everything went well, although Flounder felt uncomfortable with some of the things he saw in the fishing village... the dried fish hanging up, the dead bodies of his own kind, and the medicine made from their body parts...
Until one day, Arou's father said that he didn't have much time left and hoped to entrust Arou to him, a stranger. However, they were in this fishing village and made a living by fishing in the sea, so he wanted to learn how to fish on a big boatman's fishing boat.
Seeing this, Jianchou sighed in his heart.
The ominous premonition that she had in her heart was finally confirmed.
In the long river of time, all she saw was just a grain of sand.
A grain of sand that the flounder wanted her to see.
The young man finally went out to sea, and in a suitable season, he boarded the cleat with all the young and middle-aged men in the fishing village.
Arou was standing on the beach with a blushing smile on her face. Under the early morning sunshine on the sea, she looked indescribably bright.
But there was a gloom in flounder's heart.
This time the trip to the sea was very smooth, without encountering any wind or waves. The fishermen on the big boat cast their large nets in the place where the fish gathered and caught countless fish.
Jianchou heard him say to himself: The strong prey on the weak, that's how it should be.
During the whole process, flounder just watched, kept talking to himself, and did not step forward to participate.
Until someone called him over to pull the net.
The large net was constantly being pulled out from the sea, with countless small fish hanging on the net that were unable to escape, and even some jellyfish. In the end, an old black clam that was two meters long was pulled up, like Mr. Yuan from the old turtle cave, with many old seaweeds stuck to the tightly closed clam shell.
The flounder was suddenly stunned.
But all the fishermen around him shouted: "What a big old clam! My God, could it be a spirit?"
The fishing boat floating on the sea suddenly became lively.
The old clam was placed on the deck, and people kept shouting loudly.
Finally, even the boat owner's young son came out, pointing at the old clam and shouting, "Break it open! Break it open! Ancient books say that there must be mother-of-pearl inside such a big clam! Come on! What are you still standing there for!"
Everyone is excited...
Their eyes fell scorchingly on the hard shell of the old clam, and some of them had already started to prepare their weapons.
Their hearts are all hot, only the flounder's heart is cold.
The group of people spent a lot of time, until sunset, but still failed to open the old clam's shell.
The ship owner's son was furious and ordered the fishing boat to turn back and transport the old clam, which was two meters in size, back to the seaside, and then use tools to open the clam.
The underwater world is not as simple as ordinary people think.
This old clam had long since cultivated itself into a monster underwater, and was as knowledgeable as the old turtle. I don't know what it encountered this time, and it was completely unconscious.
When he was a child, Flounder once snuggled in front of her clam shell and saw her huge and beautiful mother of all pearls...
She is the mother of clams.
And he couldn't watch a mortal do this to her.
When the ship was about to dock, he took advantage of everyone's deep sleep, came to the deck, turned the mother clam out of the fishing net, and put it back into the sea.
All this was done without anyone noticing.
The next morning, everyone discovered that the mother clam was missing, and they were all furious.
The ship owner's son was furious and scolded everyone, but there was still no sign of the mother clam.
The ship finally reached the shore.
This time they returned with a full load, and Arou was waiting for him on the shore, like welcoming a hero.
Flounder went out to sea and finally gained the recognition of Arou's father, who promised to marry Arou to him.
He thought it was all over.
But disaster is yet to come.
The boat owner's son somehow found out about the flounder and rushed over with a group of people: "It was he who let the old clam go and the mother-of-pearl go!"
The ship owner's son pointed and everyone rushed forward.
Flounder didn't understand how he was discovered.
But it was too late. In the fishing villages by the sea, families with boats and large boats were the richest and often controlled the entire village or even the entire coast. Arou's family was completely unable to resist, and even Arou was arrested and had to compensate for the huge losses of the fishing boat this time.
The flounder asked how to redeem Ah Rou, and the captain's son said, "Mother-of-pearl, I want mother-of-pearl, the mother-of-pearl that can prolong your life!"
Mother of pearl is born in the body of a thousand-year-old clam. Knowing it can prolong life for mortals.
There were written records from ancient countries saying that knowing it could even lead to immortality.
All mortals yearn for it.
Ah Rou looked at the flounder with puzzled eyes, as if she didn't understand why he let the old clam go, nor why he put his family in danger...
The flounder suddenly didn't know what to do.
He must find a mother of pearl to save people.
Although he really wanted to kill at that moment, the old turtle said: The cultivation world is not connected to the mundane world, the mundane world is protected by cultivators, and the demons will be driven away by cultivators. Your cultivation is still shallow, don't take risks.
Facing Arou's gaze, he could not defend himself at all and could only agree to the request of the ship owner's son and gave him a small boat to go out to sea to find the mother clams and get back the mother-of-pearl.
In fact, no one knew whether there was pearl shell in the old clam, but everyone knew that the ship owner's son was bullying others by taking advantage of his power.
But no one dared to stand up and say anything more.
The flounder had just come into the world and didn't understand the trick.
He went out to sea when the wind and waves were the strongest. Everyone knew that he was risking his life. Not to mention finding the old clam or the mother of pearl, he was lucky to survive thanks to the protection of the sea god.
But flounders are not people.
He will not be in any danger at sea, but...
Where to find mother of pearl
The bottom of the sea is his home, the place where he was born and raised. On the other side of the shore is the girl he loves, waiting for him to return with the mother-of-pearl to save her and her parents.
He didn't dare to reveal his identity.
The sea is huge, but he knows that there is only one mother clam and one mother-of-pearl.
That was the elder who had been kind to him when he was young. How could he dare to raise his butcher knife and attack that fellow being who had been kind to him
He drifted on the sea for a long, long time.
The sea breeze made his hair turn dry and yellow, his skin dark, and his lips chapped.
There were many things that made him sad, including Arou’s puzzled look.
After who knows how many days, he finally couldn't stand the countless tortures anymore and shouted loudly on the sea. Then the waves were furious, mad wolves rose up, and the fierce sea breeze brought up a crazy water tornado that rushed into the sky!
He transformed himself into a fish again, a giant flatfish, and dove overboard into the sea.
Travel, travel.
He searched all over the world for Mr. Dong Yuan, who had answered his questions and solved his problems when he was young.
Finally, he found him.
The picture only goes to this scene.
Jianchou did not see how the old turtle answered the flounder. He only saw that after asking Mr. Dongyuan, it swam in the shallow sea for a long time, constantly watching the world on the shore, as if recalling the time when it was still a small fish.
Finally, it swung its huge fish tail and headed east.
This is the vast and boundless West Sea.
It swam from one end of the West Sea to the other, searching for a long time, and finally found a huge reef.
That is…
Big Dream Reef!
There was suddenly a hint of surprise in Jianchou's eyes.
Because she knew that it was not a reef, but...
Kun!
The flounder came to the reef and looked at it with a humble piety.
The waves in the sea suddenly calmed down for a moment.
Then, there was a solemn and grand sound, a sound that Jianchou could not hear, but she could hear the sound of the flounder, which, with infinite excitement, crawled down under the huge reef.
"Sea Lord!"
Sea Lord...
Kun
The huge reef was motionless.
The flounder said something else, but all the sounds became blurred.
They must be communicating.
Flounder's expression quickly became dazed, and finally he was silent for a long time. He gritted his teeth and made a decision.
Jianchou could finally hear the sound again.
The flounder said, "A hundred years from now, the flounder will come here and present Yumu to the Lord of the Sea!"
Then, a ray of light suddenly came out from the reef.
The surrounding seawater suddenly began to boil and roar, like endless cheers, endless shouts, and...
Endless wailing!
The flounder's eyes suddenly became bright and emitted a faint light.
With infinite sadness but full of gratitude, it prostrated its huge body again, paid its respect to the most powerful place in the endless ocean, and then left with a heart full of hope.
It went back.
He returned to the long-desired coast and transformed into a human again, looking the same as before.
When Jianchou saw this, he stretched out his hand and scratched his right eye hard, thus pulling out the eyeball. It suddenly shone brightly and turned into a huge and round pearl, which he held in the palm of his hand.
His eyes are still bleeding...
Suddenly, a burst of laughter came from the coast.
"Then I'll go to the beach first."
It was that familiar voice.
Arou.
Flounder was surprised. Arou was still there and was fine!
As if he no longer felt the great pain of having his eyes gouged out, he turned around with a smile on his face and shouted, "Arou!"
Ah Rou was wearing a brand new silk and satin dress, with her hair full of gorgeous pearls and jade, and was accompanied by a few maids. She was holding up the hem of her exquisite skirt and had just stood firmly on a large reef on the beach.
The moment she heard the voice, her whole body froze, she turned around, and screamed in fright.
He knew that he had frightened her, so he quickly covered the eye that had been gouged out and said in a trembling voice: "Arou, it's me, it's me!"
Ah Rou finally looked at him carefully and recognized him: "It's you!"
So he hurriedly came up and took out the huge and beautiful pearl like a treasure. It was pure white and round like the moon. The soft light fell on people's eyes, giving people a comfortable and refreshing feeling, like a soft sea breeze blowing on the cheek, like endless sea water brushing across the acupoints of the human body...
Clear.
It was an extremely extraordinary feeling.
Ah Rou was very surprised: "It's the mother of pearl, you finally found the mother of pearl!"
"right."
At this moment, his heart and eyes were filled with her, and everything was worth it.
Even if he promised to give Yumu to the Sea Lord Kun a hundred years later, even if Yumu turned into a pearl mother, even if a hundred years later, he would be left with nothing...
But he has no regrets!
Arou held the pearl in her hand, the sea breeze blowing her delicate dress down, and her eyes were filled with endless joy as she looked at the mother-of-pearl.
It's so beautiful.
The high bun and neat sideburns...
As Jianchou watched, a sarcastic smile appeared on his lips.
What a poor person...
Too bad she had no interest.
She raised her finger, and with a flick of her finger, a tiny ray of light flashed across her face, and then the speck of light like dust attached to her forehead was bounced away.
Suddenly, all the images disappeared.
Before her was still the torrent of time, an endless sea of brilliant light.
“Why don’t you watch it…”
A hoarse and vicissitudes voice sounded.
This is slightly different from the sound of the flounder that Jianchou heard, which shows that Jianchou knows that this is the flounder.
She raised her head, and the torrent of time continued to flow through her body, never stopping...
At the end of the sight is a vast ocean.
That is the world of the future, and that is the infinite possibilities.
Just looking at it from a distance, Jianchou felt dizzy...
“Why don’t you watch it…”
"Are you not interested in your future? I can peer into the universe and see the past and present..."
"Your future, let's take a look..."
"Is it this or this..."
As this slow and somewhat bewitching voice was heard, the shadow of a huge flounder slowly swam across the long river of time.
Its broad body seemed to cover the entire river, but it also seemed like it was just a tiny speck of light in the river.
It has only one eye, the other one is empty.
It came very slowly, but the moment Jianchou saw it, it was already in front of him!
It was a ray of gray and sharp light!
Like a sharp sword that cuts through time!
Jianchou felt a pain in her brow, and the soul-fixing nail that protected her soul emitted a trembling purple light, but at the moment when this line of dim light arrived, it made a sound like broken glass -
A crisp sound.
That hoarse and vicissitudes voice immediately became crazy and rang in her mind!
“Why not look!”
"There are all kinds of ugliness in the world, why don't you look at it!"
…
Jianchou felt a sharp pain in his mind.
The moment the gray line entered, she felt her consciousness become confused. An extreme and vicious feeling instantly swept over her, sincerity, sacrifice, great love, betrayal, and...
Killing!
Endless blood!
That was the blood-stained fishing village, that was Ah Rou who was stabbed to death by a sharp spear, that was the huge pearl that fell to the ground and was covered with dust...
That was the fish eye that had dimmed, disappeared, and all the light had gone away!
How pitiful it is to mix pearls with fish eyes.
The entire coast was engulfed by the endless raging waves, and all the villages were destroyed in the raging waves...
Kill, kill, kill!
Kill the unfaithful!
Kill the betrayers!
Kill all those who can be killed. I am the only one who is supreme and I am the only one who has the law!
That gray line seems small and huge.
It pierced through the soul-fixing nail that protected Jianchou's soul and went straight into her sea of consciousness.
That is something that only cultivators who have reached the Nascent Soul stage can understand.
But it just went straight ahead!
Thus, I entered a whole new and broken world...
Endless pain seemed to tear Jianchou apart.
The things that invaded her mind made her feel as if she were being cut into pieces.
That voice was still echoing in her mind!
"Why not look, why not look, why not look!"
Why not watch it!
Why should she watch?!
It's nothing but infidelity and betrayal!
What she had experienced, what she had lost, and what she had always hated were far heavier and more painful than a single fish eye!
Universe
Ume
What does it matter!
She had died once, her soul was broken, and she had lost the flesh and blood in her womb!
"You, what are you!"
The sorrow from her heart and soul suddenly resounded throughout her entire sea of consciousness.
The gray line turned into the phantom of the flounder, just in front of the entire sea of consciousness...
It was a broken world.
Incomplete mountains and water, incomplete people and things, the simple farmyard is incomplete, the ink-splashed mountains and forests in the distance are incomplete, the huge ancient banyan tree in the village is incomplete, and even the people walking through the village have incomplete faces...
Huge cracks are scattered throughout the world, interspersed irregularly...
Even all the sounds in this world are intermittent and vague like ghosts.
Standing in that vast void, standing in the surging river of time, standing at the junction of the past and the future, she opened her eyes that had been closed in pain.
Beneath her cold eyes, she hid her hidden and endless pain.
Invite her into its world
But what does this little bit of pain matter
A faint blood color suddenly stained the depths of her eyes!
Jianchou looked at the endless river, but could not feel the passage of time. Only the indifferent and even cruel voice echoed...
"Since you have come to my door, why don't you enter my world!"