During the summer vacation of 2013, I was on an intercity bus from Guyang County, Anhui Province to Yuzhou City.
It was a hot summer day and it was afternoon, so the passengers in the car were all drowsy.
In the back seat, a pale young man suddenly opened his eyes, as if he had just woken up from a dream. There was confusion on his face at first, and then he looked around.
The armrests, seats, windows, and curtains are all brand new.
"Isn't this the 311 intercity bus I took to Yuzhou City to study in the first year of high school during the summer vacation after the high school entrance examination in 2013?"
"I remember it very clearly. The 311 intercity bus was just launched this year. The fare is 10 yuan for a 40-kilometer journey."
"At that time, I took a bus to Yuzhou City with my cousin's sister."
Jiang Ning tilted his head. His shoulders felt a little heavy. A girl was leaning on his shoulders, her hair half covering her face, her eyes closed, and she was sleeping soundly.
“Everything fits right.”
"But didn't I fail in my tribulation and was destroyed by the thunder? Why am I here?"
"Could it be that I was reborn?"
Jiang Ning's childhood friend's heart had widened, and hundreds of years of cultivation had made him as calm as a calm well. However, at this moment, his heart was filled with hope.
"I'm back. I didn't die in the catastrophe, but was reborn as a teenager."
…
Jiang Ning, one of the two Yuanying Zhenjuns in Luoyun Sect, is also known as "Bu Yu Zhenjun".
In his previous life, when he was 27 years old, he traveled to the world of immortal cultivation through a space crack.
He was extremely gifted and possessed a natural spiritual root. Once he entered the sect, he was accepted as a personal disciple by the elders. In just three hundred years, he cultivated to the great perfection of the Nascent Soul stage.
Although he was an ascetic monk, he had extremely powerful fighting skills. He once wiped out seven Yuanying sects in one day, and shocked the entire Zhongzhou cultivation world.
Unfortunately, he eventually fell under the calamity of transformation and was reduced to ashes by the lightning.
It was not until the moment of overcoming the tribulation that Jiang Ning finally realized that although he was a Yuanying Zhenjun and was revered by millions of people, his nature in seeking the truth was greatly flawed.
Under the attack of his inner demons, all the magic tools he had carefully prepared to survive the tribulation were completely useless and his soul was destroyed.
The reason was that when he was 27 years old, his relatives passed away, his lover left him, and his career suffered setbacks. His heart was already dead at that time, and he has been living in a daze ever since.
When the sect offered him a technique that claimed to abandon all emotions and desires and, with his natural spiritual roots, could allow him to enter the Nascent Soul stage directly, he agreed without hesitation.
From then on, he became an emotionless cultivation machine, advancing all the way and surpassing all the previous predecessors of Luoyun Sect.
However, when he was going through the tribulation of becoming a god, he realized that becoming a god was actually becoming a mortal. He had abandoned all seven emotions and six desires, so how could he become a mortal
So he failed.
Jiang Ning sensed his body and found that the magical power that was enough to move mountains and seas disappeared without a trace.
Even his divine sense, which was enough to see through an area of ten thousand miles, disappeared.
He pinched his thigh hard.
"It hurts. It hurts so much."
The physical condition that could withstand magic weapons no longer exists.
"This is not a dream, I am really back."
Magic power, spiritual consciousness, tempered body, magic weapons, elixirs, talismans, countless years of collection, all lost.
No matter how terrifying the catastrophe of transformation into a god is, it is impossible to completely deprive him of everything.
What made Jiang Ning even more convinced of all this was that he actually... laughed.
He hasn't laughed for three hundred years, and he has long lost the instinct to laugh.
Jiang Ning was filled with wild joy. Even though he had lost the skills he had cultivated for countless years, he was not depressed at all.
Because only at this moment did he feel that he was not a piece of wood, but a real person.
Suddenly there was a noise at my shoulder.
The girl woke up. Her fair and pretty face was a little hazy, with a few messy strands of hair falling on her forehead, which made people's heart beat fast. However, Jiang Ning quietly distanced himself from her.
…
Jiang Ning was born in a small township under Guyang County, Yuzhou City.
His parents worked in coastal areas all year round, and he grew up with his grandparents in a very ordinary family.
Jiang Ning scored 650 points in the high school entrance examination, which exceeded the score line of Yuzhou No. 4 Middle School. In order to get a better education, his parents asked his eldest brother, who lived in Yuzhou City and was Jiang Ning's uncle, to let Jiang Ning stay at his house so that he could study at No. 4 Middle School.
The uncle readily agreed, but after Jiang Ning arrived at his uncle's house, he was not happy during his three years of high school.
My aunt is not an easy person to get along with. She has a mean personality, despises the poor and loves the rich, and always finds trouble to educate Jiang Ning. In addition, she has a younger son who is the same age as Jiang Ning, and he is Jiang Ning's cousin.
Jiang Ning was living under someone else's roof, and was inevitably forced to make comparisons on a daily basis. He was inferior to his cousin in every aspect, and therefore suffered various blows, not to mention countless different treatments.
As a result, after Jiang Ning graduated, he never went to his uncle's house again, and the original relationship between the relatives became extremely strained.
The girl sitting next to Jiang Ning at this time is Shen Qing'e, who is from the same town as Jiang Ning. She is the younger sister of Jiang Ning's cousin's wife and will live with him in his uncle's house in the future.
Shen Qing'e was beautiful, and Jiang Ning admired her when he was young and fell in love with her.
He usually shares all the delicious and fun things with her and treats her very well, like a dog.
He thought that if they lived together, they would be able to enjoy the benefits of being close to each other.
However, after Shen Qing'e came to Yuzhou and saw the bigger world, how could a boy like Jiang Ning who came from a small town catch her eye
Compared with his peers in Yuzhou City, Jiang Ning has almost no advantages to show off. He has an average appearance, is not tall, and is not good at sports.
My grades, which were at the top in the small town, were barely average in the city. There was a huge gap between me and the top students in the class.
With only a hundred yuan of pocket money every month, how could he win Shen Qing'e's favor
For three years, Shen Qing'e kept Jiang Ning hanging, flirting with outstanding boys and paying attention to him from time to time, which often made Jiang Ning feel distraught. After the college entrance examination, Shen Qing'e and a tall and handsome boy in the same class were admitted to a key university in a coastal city together, and their future was bright.
Jiang Ning only got into a second-tier university. After he graduated and entered society, he finally figured out what Shen Qing'e had done. He silently deleted her contact information, and the two had almost no contact since then.
Seeing Chen Qing'e again at this time, Jiang Ning felt as if he was in another world. He clearly recalled many memories about her. It was indeed that the girl left a deep impression on him.
This is also due to Jiang Ning's hundreds of years of practice. Ninety-nine percent of his time is spent in practice, making him a hardworking monk.
"How long will it take to get to the station?" Shen Qing'e rubbed her eyes.
Jiang Ning glanced at the road signs outside and saw that they were almost at the station.
Seeing that Jiang Ning ignored her, Shen Qing'e frowned and raised her voice:
"Jiang Ning, where are you?"
"We'll be at the station soon." Jiang Ning replied to her.
Shen Qing'e seemed to realize something and stopped talking.
The bus arrived at the station, the conductor shouted, and Jiang Ning got off the bus carrying his suitcase.
"Jiang Ning, the box is so heavy!" Shen Qing'e carried it with difficulty and looked at Jiang Ning with blinking eyes.
If it were the Jiang Ning of the past, seeing her like this, he would have rushed over to get it for her without her reminding.
Now Jiang Ning looked down at his own small body and decided to give up.
Chen Qing'e was speechless and walked away angrily carrying the box.
Jiang Ning followed the crowd towards the exit.
Arriving at the exit, Shen Qing'e looked towards a milk tea shop across the street and tucked her hair in front of her forehead:
"I'm so thirsty. I don't know when my sisters will arrive."