Chapter 1617 Tong Ji

Mortal life is destined to be difficult to adapt to.

Even from infancy.

After getting used to the omnipotence of a god, when faced with the difficult situation of incompetence, it is difficult to bear the insignificance of oneself.

What was even more difficult to endure and adapt to was the guy named Yi.

His own nominal ‘father’.

His time as a human being was so short, but even in his long time as a god, he rarely encountered such a bizarre person.

He has been feeding his daughter alcohol since he was two years old. When he was three years old, he carried his daughter to hunt tigers with him. When he was four years old, he began to teach her how to set traps to hunt wild beasts. When his daughter was five years old, he did all the work. He left everything to her...and then started to make trouble everywhere for nothing.

He would either fight or drink every day. When he was drunk, he would brag about his great achievements in shooting down nine suns with one arrow due to his improper boarding.

Unfortunately, no one believed it at all.

Then, from time to time, he would go to the wilderness, which is a completely magical place for humans, to have fun, including but not limited to beating up monsters and mountain spirits, and even the descendants of mythical beasts were not spared at all.

The end result is that a lot of troubles are caused at every turn, and the only one who has to stand up to clean up the mess is his unlucky daughter.

Then the mess grew.

Trouble is getting more and more trouble.

But no matter what methods he used to remind and persuade him, he remained stubborn.

When he was unhappy, he would drink like crazy, and when he was happy, he would drink like crazy and drag the people around him to dance together. In the end, more and more people danced. Outsiders thought there was a festival in the settlement.

If the envoys from other settlements do not respect him, they will have their teeth knocked out by him. If you respect him, he will invite the messenger to spar with each other, and then knock out a pair of teeth.

Silly one is missing.

There are quite a few people who like this silly guy.

Even the former emperor couldn't help but look at the sky and sigh a few words when he was in a state of distress. Was life always so difficult, or was it just him?

I always feel like something is wrong with the location.

Is Yi the father or himself?

But hard times must come to an end, and I’ve been less worried these past few years.

There aren't that many things to worry about.

Because he is dying.

"It's so shameful that he died of old age."

On the rocking chair, the skinny old man clicked his lips and remembered the taste of strong liquor: "If you die like this, your ancestors who died with tigers, leopards and monsters will probably not be able to bear it, right?

You can't be like me in the future, Tong. "

He warned seriously: "You must work hard enough!"

"..."

Tong Ji sat silently in front of the furnace, not even bothering to turn her head back, and didn't want to pay attention to him.

The only thing that can be felt is the increasingly dense aura of death.

So clear.

How similar are the death of mortals and the demise of gods?

Regardless of whether it is under the shackles of destiny or not, eventually, after the body decays and the soul dissipates, it will still return to the world without any remaining existence.

So humble.

Despicable and unpleasant.

It would be even more unpleasant if there was a nagging guy next to him who kept nagging.

Snapped!

In the furnace that was opened, precious chalcedony and white dew were used as a guide to melt the elixir of gold and stone, and finally turned into an emerald green liquid, which fell into the bowl.

Then, he photographed it in front of the old thing.

"Stop talking nonsense."

She said expressionlessly: "Try the medicine."

The elixir of immortality.

To be precise, it is just a test product that is still a million miles away from completion.

Gods still cannot escape their decline after thousands of years, let alone mortals?

Even if we exhaustively search for so many precious materials, what we end up with can only extend the lives of mortals for one or two hundred years.

But in the silence, Yi just remained silent and looked at the bowl in front of him.

After a long time, he withdrew his gaze.

Just shake his head.

"Leave it to me, give it quietly, don't say anything."

He said: "Marrying such a dissolute guy like me, she has been suffering all her life, and she has complained a lot... If she knew that I gave her such a precious thing before I died, she might be moved to tears and regret it. You didn't treat me better and then regretted it, right?"

As he spoke, he smiled proudly.

So weird.

It was so strange that Tong Ji wanted to kill someone.

"Can't you just listen to me for once!"

Tong Ji roared: "Eat it and stop the ink stains!"

On the recliner, the old man was stunned for a moment, his lips opened and closed, as if he was frightened, and there were tears in his eyes: "That's too much, Tong, is there any daughter who talks to her father like this?"

Tong Ji remained unmoved and stared at him with increasing indifference:

"You don't really think you are my father, do you?"

The aggrieved look and tears disappeared, like a trick, and the old man in the rocking chair smiled, held his head high, and said so proudly: "Why not?"

Ling Tongji was speechless.

He already knew it.

Maybe from the beginning.

For so many years, they have never touched this topic, but each other already knows the truth.

"Have you never thought of killing me?" Tong Ji asked, "I am the culprit who almost destroyed everything."

"Why kill?"

Yi asked back, "It was Di Kuang who ruined everything, but you are my daughter, Tong. As a father, how can you hurt your own child?"

Such a calm expression, no hesitation.

She fell into silence.

"Gods and humans are different, Tong.

Even though you were once the Emperor, I can be sure that you are not the same as Him.

You just haven't noticed it yet. "

The old man on the recliner looked at his daughter in front of him and sighed with compassion: "But it is precisely because of this that I feel sad for you.

Because the responsibilities and constraints of the gods you are accustomed to are too heavy.

But you have never lived like a human being. "

Tong Ji asked coldly, "They are just failures and jokes. Is there any difference?"

“As a god, he exists in the world forever, standing high above the clouds, and he is omnipotent.

But human life is so short. Among the many inconveniences and hardships, the only thing that can be boasted is this freedom, which is nothing compared to the gods. "

Yi sighed with compassion: "The life of a mortal is too short and too insignificant. But what you are pursuing, even for the gods, is too far away..."

"I'm destined to never see that day again."

He held his daughter's hand so hard: "But after I leave, what should you do when you are lonely and in pain?"

"..."

For a moment, Tong Ji wanted to throw away his hand.

But it was not out of disgust and anger, but fear and uneasiness. Apart from the meager ray of warmth, all that could be felt was the breath of death.

Just feeling like this, I don't know why, so sad.

"I will save everything, Yi, including you."

Tong Ji let him hold her hand and avoided his sight: "Give me a little more time. Whether it's decline or death, I can solve it."

Yi just shook his head and smiled slightly.

"I just hope that one day, when your road comes to the end, you can feel that all the hard work was worth it."

He said: "I hope your pursuit will yield results."

That smile stung Tong Ji's eyes.

It's like seeing the distant future and ending.

So sad, yet so hopeful.

"As a mortal, isn't this too arrogant?"

"No, this is just a father's expectation and blessing for his daughter." Yi held her hand and finally told her: "Leave here after I die.

Don't be trapped in this small settlement. Your future and what you want are not here. "

"That's stupid."

Tong Ji couldn't help but became furious: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

But Yi just looked at her.

No wavering.

"The birds spread their wings and fly up in the whirlwind, this is 'Yi'——"

He asked softly: "As a god, you have given me such freedom, but as a human, when can you spread your wings?"

Tongji was stunned.

Sluggish.

"After I die, no one will restrain you anymore, Tong. You are free to choose what kind of path you take and what kind of person you become.

Don't give up and don't be disappointed, because at the end of the road, there will be results and there will be rewards left for you.

Believe me, this is my guarantee as a father. "

The dying old man reached out his hand for the last time and caressed her cheek, as if touching a universal treasure.

Just like when I touched that swaddle.

Facing death, I am not sad, but full of joy and peace.

Final farewell.

He said, “I have witnessed you as you have witnessed me.”

When the dry and weak palm lost its last warmth and slipped from her cheek, the old man on the recliner had already closed his eyes.

Stop breathing.

No matter what kind of calling and shouting.

The short period of more than seventy years is less than a moment compared to the eternal world, but it is so arrogant and arrogant.

He despises everything that has been established, decides his own life in his own way, respects his own morals and rules, and implements this short life.

Live freely, choose death freely.

Fate, gods, and death never let him bow.

Now, he is dead.

In the silence, Tong Ji was silent, looking at that calm face, wanting to say something, but tears flowed out for no apparent reason.

As a god, Yi was her enemy, but the god had died.

As a mortal, Yi was her father...

But her father is dead.

In her fifteenth year as a human, she felt the sadness of being a human for the first time. Then, I discovered that without even realizing it, I had already learned the joy and joy of being a human being.

When she became Taiyi, she lost all her companions.

But when she chooses to become a human, she is destined to lose more.

Now, she is free, but she is at a loss about everything.

The world is too huge and too cruel.

She has seen the long way down.

"I'm leaving, father."

After the simple funeral, she stared at the silent tomb and said her final goodbyes.

No one responded.

But in the hallucination, it seems that the happy laughter can still be heard. The distant reverberation echoed in the sky, chasing her into the distance along with the wind.

Even for a former god, the journey is still long and difficult.

After losing all her power, she once again devoted her energy to the arcana and alchemy that she had regarded as toys in the past to make a living.

In this way, wandering alone on the earth.

Years passed by in a hurry.

She traveled from Kyushu to countless settlements, witnessed prosperity and decline, peace and war, and searched for traces of the past.

But even after visiting the gathering places of his former companions, there was still no trace of the existence of gods.

At the highest point of Kunlun Mountain, in the deep sea, even rising above the clouds with hurricane force and wooden wings, looking for the palace that once belonged to him.

But apart from a layer of dust and collapsed ruins, nothing was found.

The gods no longer appeared in the world, as if they had abandoned the world, leaving her alone in this lonely world.

But it wasn't until the end, when her confused search came to an end and she returned to the earth again, that the low humming that she had ignored became so clear.

From beneath the earth.

That mighty and majestic torrent runs through mountains and rivers, pervades everything, and covers everything.

A huge existence called Dragon Vein.

In the rushing water, familiar sounds overlapped in one place, so familiar.

At that moment, Tong Ji finally received the answer from her delayed realization.

They are everywhere.

Here they are.

This is the final destination of the gods...

Attribute all divinity and power to the dragon vein, and entrust this responsibility to mortal hands.

Free the gods from the shackles of destiny.

Their souls turned into miracles and changes, and merged with the earth and the world here. From then on, mortals and gods became one.

Even though this infinite power is hidden in everyone's soul and difficult to see, as long as it is well guided and maintained for a long time, the majestic scale will one day truly appear in the world, right?

From then on, we will live together in this land and in the entire world.

Perhaps, this is what Bai Ze wanted to discuss with him in the past, right?

Only that guy could pull off such a bizarre and exaggerated plan, and only his former self couldn't accept it.

From that time on, he had noticed her hypocrisy and ambition earlier than Tong Ji. But even so, they still let Tong Ji live in this world again.

As human beings, face all this.

In the time since then, her footprints have covered every corner of the current situation, witnessing the never-ending disputes from a human perspective.

Passing through everyone's lives under different names.

Then, with different actions, they left completely different legends.

People who have seen her regard her as an elusive ghost, but people who have never seen her regard her existence as nonsense and rumors.

Long sleeps again and again, brief awakenings again and again.

She should have died long ago, but death never came. Even though she deliberately searched for it, every time she closed her eyes, she could always see the shining bow at the end of her long dream.

The wedge of God left in his soul.

Perhaps this is the legacy of wishes from Chang Yi and Xi He.

Because of their blessings, she could not die, and because of Yi's expectations, she could not give up and stop.

In this way, I wander in vain between gods and humans, search tiredly in the world, and pursue eternity and transcendence in vain.

But all you get is an endless cycle.

Witnessing futile struggles time and time again, facing disillusionment and death again and again.

Until the gods die.

Until she gradually transformed from a human being into a legend. She was the former Emperor Jun, the former Jingwei, the former Phoenix...

On this endless road, she gradually becomes a collection of changes in the world, a recorder of all changes and transcendence, and a soul transformed from endless events.

Until one day, when she woke up from her deep sleep again, she looked at the world on the verge of collapse, the current situation after the death of the gods.

There is also the group of travelers who call themselves the Pioneers.

They travel around the world, extending invitations to everyone who is willing to respond. Since destruction is about to come, they are describing a future and a tomorrow that belongs to everyone.

And, a huge existence called the Astronomical Society.

She began to testify again.

Among them, I watched silently, witnessing this great creation and era of mankind, and witnessing the miracles and achievements they created.

For a moment, she even felt that a redemption greater than her own and greater than anything she had ever experienced would one day be accomplished by human hands.

But under the light, there is still darkness that grows day by day.

She also stared at the spreading haze.

Until one day, from the mouth of the promoter behind the scenes, I learned about the existence of the so-called "Savior Plan".

"Break all sin and hell? Depend on one person?"

She couldn't help but mock: "Human beings are really hopeless."

"Maybe you still can't trust people, but it doesn't matter. You can personally control and lead all this!" The president smiled: "We can redeem everything."

"No, you won't get anything."

Fed up with that empty smile, she turned and left: "What is left for you is tragedy and destruction, nothing more."

From that day on, the existence named Tong Ji disappeared from the Utopia without a trace.

It's just the departure of a bystander, nothing more.

Not many people even noticed.

When she looked at the completely different world for the last time, she could see the dark sun rising in the distance, and she no longer felt any nostalgia.

In this way, Tong Bow was thrown into the deepest part of the silver sea and returned to the world.

She sank into the deepest part of countless dreams.

Usher in undisturbed sleep.

Until one day, he woke up again from the sound of the Book of Destiny.

She opened her eyes.

Huai Shi opened her eyes.

Look at her face and smile.

She was looking at herself too.

So enjoyable.

"How do you feel, Huai Shi?"

Tong Ji lowered her eyes and looked down at the contractor in her arms. Her long, hanging hair flowed across his face like running water, so gently: "Have you learned any lessons from the failure of your predecessor Taiyi?"

"...Sorry, no."

Huai Shi blinked blankly and thought for a long time, searching all over her body to find something worth being vigilant about. But in the end, she still had no idea. Instead, she remembered another thing.

His eyes widened in shock, and he lost his voice in shock.

"Wait, then if you think about it, wouldn't you have already..."

No premonition of death is needed.

At that moment, Huai Shi saw in her smile the terror and darkness that surpassed the abyss.

The words stopped abruptly.

stiff.

But Tong Ji was still smiling and looking at him:

"Already what?"

Huai Shi swallowed and said dryly: "Isn't it... already very hard and not easy?"

"yes."

Tongji nodded and followed the lead: "So, what should you say to your kind and gentle sister who has been working hard for you regardless of hardships?"

"Thank you Tong Ji!"

Huaishi shouts without thinking.

Then, the terrifying darkness that surpassed the abyss disappeared silently, leaving only a sweet and cheerful smile.

Then, he raised his hands, pinched Huai Shi's face mercilessly, and rubbed it until he struggled hard and lowered his head to beg for mercy, and then slowly withdrew the meager punishment.

"Finally, have you found it, Tong Ji?"

Huai Shi pushed the hair away from her face and asked, "How to save everything."

"No."

She raised two fingers in front of her eyes and marked a small distance: "It's still a little bit close... But unfortunately, the world is about to be destroyed again, and I guess there is no chance to find it again."

As she said that, she lowered her head and looked at the contractor in her arms, "So, will you give me the answer before the world is destroyed, Huai Shi?"

"I can't find it either."

Huaishi spread her hands regretfully, and finally promised: "But at least I will help you find it together."

He said: "Anyway, after we save the world, we still have a lot of time."

In this brief silence, Tong Ji looked at him blankly for a long time, and the corners of her mouth were slightly raised.

Smiling silently.

She nodded.

"OK."