After a long while, needles could be heard in the hall, and finally Qingxiong said: "I told you to go to the world to do three things, Hong Jun, your father has raised you for twelve years, these three things, can you fulfill your father's wish?" .”
Hong Jun looked at Chongming, then at Qingxiong, then at Chongming again, and finally nodded and said, "If you say that, I'll go."
Qingxiong handed out a letter and said: "Di Renjie had a government before his death, named Datang Exorcism Department, you take this letter, go to the Exorcism Department to report, take time, and slowly find out what killed your father Kong. Xuan's enemies, this is the first thing."
Hong Jun thought for a while and asked, "Who is the Qiu family?"
"I don't know." Qingxiong stood up, and another peacock feather made of jasper appeared between his fingers, and handed it to Hongjun, "What kind of person was your own father, and what kind of life did he spend in Chang'an?" Life, who he hated and loved whom, who is kind to him, who is against him, we don't know all of these, and we can't say. Only you can find the answer to all this."
Hong Jun hesitated for a moment, then took Peacock Ling.
"The four flying knives have been passed down to you when you were a child." Chongming raised his hand, threw out a map, and said, "Now Chang'an is full of monsters, and all the monsters on the map can be killed."
"Oh." Hong Jun caught it, and opened the map in his hand. He didn't recognize a word of the monster on it.
"You took it down." Chongming reminded.
Hong Jun immediately turned over the atlas, pretending to look at it seriously, but his eyes couldn't help but glance at Chongming who was high up, Chongming just didn't look at him.
"Who is Di Renjie?" Hong Jun asked, seeing that Chongming's face softened a little.
"Alone." Chongming replied, "Your father's former friend also died long ago."
"The Department of Exorcism specializes in the collection and exorcism of demons." Qingxiong explained, "Nowadays, the demon clan in Chang'an and Yaojin Palace are mortal enemies. After you join the department, just listen to them. If you can expel the entrenched Demon King of Chang'an, your father and I may return to the world to accompany you in the future."
"Really?" Hong Jun raised his head suddenly.
"When did I say that?" Chongming frowned, and said coldly to Qingxiong.
"Two hundred years ago." Qingxiong walked a few steps in the hall, and said slowly, "A war broke out between Yaojin Palace and Heavenly Demon Holy Land, which lasted for a long time, and finally..."
"There's no need to tell him." Chongming interrupted, "It's impossible for him to do it."
Qingxiong replied: "He is also your child, from Yaojin Palace!"
"Don't talk too much!" Chongming exhaled his anger.
"I will defeat the demon king." Hong Jun smiled again for a moment, and replied, "This is the second thing, it's a deal!"
"Even if the black flood dragon's corpse is smashed into ten thousand pieces." Chongming almost gritted his teeth, "I will not return to the human world, so don't waste your time and lose your life!"
Hongjun: "..."
"And this pendant." Qingxiong answered in time, put the pendant in Hongjun's hand, and explained, "When you arrive in Chang'an, find a man named Chen Ziang, and tell him that this is a burning lamp... that's all, you don't need to tell anything. Him, you just open it in front of him..."
After finishing speaking, Qingxiong pinched the pendant with his long and slender fingers, and the golden hoop under the pendant lit up with a mantra light, automatically separated and untied, and the crystal slowly flew up.
"... then crush the crystal in front of him."
Hong Jun looked surprised and asked, "Why?"
"This is the heart lamp entrusted to me by King Kun of Xuandu." Qingxiong said, "The successor should be the Chen family in the human world, but two hundred years ago, due to a small accident, the power of the heart lamp failed to enter the body of the Chen family... It's time to return things to their original owners, the crystal is broken, and the heart lamp will automatically enter the body."
"Whether the mortal is alive or not is uncertain." Chong Ming said with a snort.
"It doesn't matter if you die, as long as the descendants of the Chen family can inherit it." Qingxiong said, "In short, Hong Jun, you have to find the successor of the heart lamp, give him the light inside, and then share with him. Make friends, this is the third thing. After completing these three things, you can return to Yaojin Palace, and your father will naturally not drive you down the mountain again."
"Okay." Hong Jun put it away carefully and replied, "I will finish these three things and go home within a year."
Chongming scoffed.
"You have the five-color divine light of Kong Xuan in your body." Chongming couldn't help but said, "It's enough to protect yourself. With the flying knife in your hand, you can kill people and demons. There is no problem. I have raised you for twelve years, and you and I are also destined One time, if I don't ask you this question, Qingxiong will probably blame me for being unreasonable... Now that you think clearly..."
Hong Jun opened his mouth slightly, looked straight at Chongming, Chongming finally turned his gaze to him again, and said word by word:
"In Yaojin Palace, you can pick out whatever you want, and I will give you whatever you can say."
The light from the sky entered the hall and sprinkled between the two of them. Outside the skylight, there were white clouds and the blue sky was like washing.
After a long time, Hong Jun finally replied: "I want dad...you can go down the mountain with me, okay?"
Chong Ming remained silent for a long time, then got up and walked aside.
"No." With his back to Hongjun, he never turned around.
"You said you would give me whatever you choose." Hong Jun said with a smile, "I'll pick you."
"Don't mess around." Qingxiong said, "Hong Jun, this is for you."
Qingxiong handed Hong Jun a bundle, Hong Jun took it, put it on his back, and walked slowly towards Chongming, but Chongming didn't want to look back at him, turned around and walked to the platform on the side hall. Hong Jun had no choice but to stop, Chongming said: "If you don't talk about it, let's go now."
Hong Jun was quiet for a while, and said, "That's gone."
Hong Jun turned around and walked out of the side hall in disappointment.
"Exactly the same as Kong Xuan back then." Qingxiong said with a sigh.
Chongming's voice was hoarse for a long time, his shoulders trembled slightly, and he said: "He is him, Kong Xuan is Kong Xuan, I have let go of it all these years, but you have not let go yet."
Qingxiong was startled.
Carrying a small burden on his back, Hong Jun slowly descended the winding road of Taihang Mountain. The carp behind him jumped up and down and chased after him.
"Your Highness! Your Highness!" Carp ran out of breath and said, "Why did you leave without waiting for me?"
Hong Jun turned around suddenly, only to remember to forget it.
"Why are you here?" Hong Jun said, "Go back! Go back! Dad said the world is too dangerous..."
"Master Qingxiong asked me to follow you." Carp sat down on a rock, wagged its tail, and asked, "Do you know where Chang'an is?"
Hong Jun scratched his head.
"Do you know how much a tael of silver is worth?"
"Do you know where to buy horses?"
"Do you know how to say hello when you stay in a hotel? Do you know how to say hello when you meet a human race? Do you know that the more handsome a man is, the more he will deceive you? You know..."
"Okay, okay, don't talk about it!" Hong Jun replied, put down the burden, and sat down.
The carp demon said again: "Wash your hands before eating, and add clothes when it's cold. There are spring, summer, autumn and winter in the world, no more than in Yaojin Palace..."
On the top of Taihang Mountain among the clouds and mist in the distance, birdsong bursts out, and the golden wheel shines in the world, setting off the sea of clouds and the sun.
The carp demon's broken thoughts in Hong Jun's ears have been gradually silenced. He thought that he had been in the Yaojin Palace for twelve years and had never left his father's side. Chongming actually wanted to say goodbye, but he was so terrified that he couldn't help feeling sad for a moment.
"After finishing the three things, you can go home." The carp demon said, "Don't cry."
"I didn't cry!" Hong Jun said angrily.
"Then let's go." The carp demon said, "It hurts to walk on the mountain road."
Hong Jun had no choice but to catch the carp demon, and the carp demon consciously stuck his hands and feet backwards. Hong Jun stuffed it into his bag, and couldn't help but look back at the top of the mountain. At this time, his heart was full of complicated and inexplicable emotions .
"Let's go." The carp demon said, "It won't be dark anymore."
Hongjun: "..."
Hong Jun had no choice but to turn around and stride along the mountain road.
Three days later, in Yaojin Palace.
"Why have you traveled around for three days and three nights and still haven't left Taihang Mountain?"
Chongming stood in the atrium, facing the pond, with an impatient expression on his face. A reflection appeared in the pond—Hong Jun was squatting by a stream holding water to drink, his body was sloppy and his face was unkempt.
"I said you can't drink unboiled water, if you drink it after boiling it, you will have diarrhea, why don't you have any rules when you go out of the mountain!" Chongming was so angry.
"Just get lost." Qingxiong replied.
"I told you that carp is out of tune!" Chongming said agitatedly, "That's all, you go down and send him out of the mountain."
"I won't go." Qingxiong said, "I have to go by yourself."
Chongming glanced at Qingxiong, Qingxiong suddenly said: "We've found the way soon, look, you can go out along the right path."
Chongming and Qingxiong looked at the pond together again. In the image, Hongjun stood at a fork in the road, looking left and right.
"The one on the right! The one on the right!" Chongming and Qingxiong anxiously urged.
In the end, Hong Jun lived up to expectations and chose the right path, and the two finally let out a long sigh of relief. Qingxiong said: "Let's go out now, follow the official path in the world, and we will be able to reach Chang'an in one month."
Hong Jun finally slowly walked out of the periphery seen by the water mirror in the pond, and his figure disappeared outside the last canyon of Taihang Mountain. Chongming could no longer see him, so he had to turn around and leave alone.