Chronicles of Celestial Origins

Chapter 26 Breaking the Illusion

Tangning suddenly looked at the black horse beneath her. When had she tied the horse at the door of her house?

Liu Ruhan pulled his hand. Tangning looked at her and shook her head before pulling her onto the horse. She felt like she had left something behind along the way.

The two came to Cui Yilin's room in the backyard of the caravan and knelt down to worship him several times.

Cui Yilin smiled and pulled the two of them up: "No need to be polite, I am happy that you are now married and a teacher."

After the master and apprentice exchanged pleasantries, Tang Ning took Liu Ruhan to visit several senior uncles and senior brother Qi Yunfei in turn.

When he returned home, he met Gu Chengqian again. When he saw Tang Ning, he ran over with a smile on his face: "Hey, Tang Ning, I ordered a table of wine at Cuixian Tower today. Remember to go and eat it tonight!"

"I won't go, you can eat it yourself!" Tang Ning looked at Liu Ruhan with a troubled expression on her face.

"How can that be done? Today's dinner is just for you. It's not just me, but all the brothers from the caravan, and some people from Li Jinmian. It's your wedding day, and we treat you to a meal, but you still don't give us face. ah?"

"Okay! I'll go there later."

In the evening, a group of people exchanged cups with each other. Tang Ning looked at Gu Chengqian and Li Jinmian, and some blurry memory fragments came into her mind.

He vaguely saw a young man kneeling in front of a man covered in blood with a blade in his hand. He also saw this young man walking in the rain with an expressionless face and saying something to him. There was a man lying next to him, but he looked at The faces of these people are unclear.

When she woke up the next day, she was in a familiar room again. Tangning looked at the swaying bamboo shadows outside the window. The more she looked at it, the more she felt that something was wrong. After a while, Liu Ruhan woke up and fell into the gentle countryside again.

The days passed by, and it was five years in a flash. Tangning rubbed her hands and walked anxiously outside the door. Gu Chengqian patted him on the shoulder: "Don't be nervous, it's okay. This midwife is the most experienced in the county. Nothing will go wrong."

Tangning nodded and forced a smile. He was still worried. From time to time, he would lie down at the door to listen for noise, but he could hear nothing.

After a long time, a baby's cry pierced the quiet night sky. Tangning was so excited that she hurriedly ran to the room.

Just as he was about to open the door, the clear and melodious sound of wind chimes suddenly came to his ears. He stopped for an instant and looked back at everything around him in a daze. He vaguely remembered that someone once told him, The bell rings, everything is empty.

"Tangning, what's wrong with you? What are you doing here? Didn't you hear? The child was born," Gu Chengqian said.

Tangning looked at him blankly, her familiar face becoming a little blurry.

"Did you hear the bell?"

"What are you talking about? What kind of bell sound are you talking about? Are you stupid?"

Tangning didn't answer, she just looked at him motionless, and some vague fragments appeared in her mind.

"The murderer behind the massacre of thirty-four members of my family was your master Cui Yilin."

"Tangning, I told you that you are my only friend. Leave quickly and go to Yizong. Maybe you will still have a chance to meet her."

The blurry scene became clear bit by bit. The young man walked across the threshold, paused and whispered, "Tangning, take care."

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"Congratulations, Mr. Tang, mother and child are safe." The door opened and the midwife came out holding a baby.

Tang Ning looked at the crying baby, and then at Liu Ruhan who was sweating profusely and extremely weak in the room, and felt dizzy for a moment.

The midwife handed the baby into his hands. Liu Ruhan looked at him and the baby in her arms with a happy smile on her face.

Tangning walked in like a puppet.

In the following months, he devoted himself to the mother and son, and Liu Ruhan slowly recovered. Gradually, he put down his position in the caravan and opened a restaurant with the money on hand. Because he was a disciple of Cui Yilin, And after working in the caravan for so many years, he is familiar with the brothers in the caravan, and everyone praises him, so his business is very good.

Just like that, several more years passed. During this period, some vague pictures always came to his mind, and he couldn't see clearly or hear them clearly.

"Tang Ning." When he heard someone calling him, he turned around and saw Gu Chengqian standing there, looking at him with a strange look on his face.

"What's wrong with you? You ignored me even after I called you four or five times?"

"Oh, I was a little distracted and didn't pay attention." Tangning said with a smile.

"You've been like this all this time, are you okay?"

"I don't know what's going on, but I always feel like I've forgotten something, something very important."

"Hey, let me tell you something, take your wife and Yi'er to play in the southern suburbs tomorrow. My Xin'er keeps pestering me to take her there, so I just wanted to take their mother and daughter to play. Let's go together. Well, you should just relax and don’t be nervous all day long.”

Tangning thought for a while: "Okay!"

The next day, six people from the two families and two carriages headed towards the southern suburbs.

Tang Ning was sitting in the carriage, holding Liu Ruhan's hand and holding her son Tang Yi. The child looked very similar to him, with his features and eyes.

"Dad, when are you going to teach me how to practice swordsmanship? I want to learn swordsmanship." The child looked at him and asked with a sweet voice.

"Not yet! How old are you? Dad will teach you in a few years."

"Dad, I don't want to sleep alone. Can I sleep with you guys?"

"No, a man must sleep alone."

"Then why do you sleep with your mother in your arms every day? I want to sleep with my mother in my arms too."

The carriage stumbled all the way to the southern suburbs. Tangning took Liu Ruhan's little hand and held her son out of the carriage, then put her son down: "Let's play with Xin'er!"

Tang Yi happily jumped all the way to Gu Chengqian's family, took the little girl's hand and left.

Gu Chengqian and his wife laughed and said, "Xin'er was so happy when she heard that Yi'er was coming yesterday. She made a lot of noise all night."

The four of them followed the two children, chatting and laughing all the way. At noon, Tang Ning saw the two children still playing by the pond, so she went over and asked them to come for dinner.

Two children were making noises by the pond, splashing with water.

"What are you doing?" Tangning walked up to them, knelt down and asked with a smile.

"Dad, look at that flower, I can't pick it no matter what." Xiao Tang Yi pointed at the reflection in the water and said with a milky voice.

"Silly boy, that's a reflection, it's fake. Look, that flower is on top!" Tangning pointed to the flower on the tree.

Seeing the bright and delicate flowers and their reflections in the water, he suddenly remembered something.

There was a crisp sound of bells in his ears. He put his hand through the water curtain, ripples appeared on the water, and intermittent memory fragments appeared in his mind.

"Kingka, Suigetsu."

"Why aren't you leaving?" Gu Chengqian came over and picked up a child in one hand: "Let's go, let's go eat!"

"Hey, Tangning, what do you think we make an appointment to have a baby kiss?"

Gu Chengqian walked forward with the two children in his arms. Seeing that he was still in a daze, he asked, "What are you doing there! Why don't you come over?"

"I can't go." Tangning turned to look at her gentle figure not far away.

Everything in front of him gradually blurred until everything in his field of vision disappeared.

Tangning opened his eyes again and saw a gray world in front of him. He was a little surprised as to how he ended up here. He remembered that he had not been in this dreamland for many years.

You have clearly seen through the illusion just now, and you should return to the Mortal Transformation Pond!

Or is this still an illusion?

Before he could figure out what was going on, the gray mist surrounding him surged up and swarmed into his body.

"Ah!" The gray mist penetrated into his body. Tangning felt that her body was so swollen that it was about to explode. She yelled and then lost consciousness.

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Outside the Mortal Transformation Pool, the man in green looked at the crimson water rolling in the pool and calmed down. He then heard Tang Ning shouting and fainted, so he removed the restrictions on the pool and frowned as he watched Tang Ning fall into a coma.

Mo Ruting saw the man in green helping Tang Ning out and asked quickly, "Senior Brother Xu, what's going on?"

"I succeeded in transforming into a mortal. It's nothing serious. It may be because I was exhausted from fighting the illusion and was exhausted." The man in Tsing Yi didn't know why this happened, so he said casually: "It's very dangerous when transforming into a mortal. It's very dangerous to calm the soul. It took three calls for him to break away from the illusion. He should be fine after taking him back for a few days to recuperate."

"Oh, then I'll take him away."

Tangning woke up in a daze and found that he was lying in a familiar room. He stood up and opened the door and looked at the disciples in dark clothes in the distance. He also saw people struggling on the stone steps and a familiar figure gritting his teeth and persisting under the waterfall.

This should not be an illusion anymore! But shouldn't he be in the Mortal Transformation Pool? Why are you here?

Just when his mind was spinning, he suddenly found that he was different from usual. He could actually see clearly the people on the stone steps a hundred feet away and the figures washed by the water under the waterfall. Not only could he see their faces clearly, You can even see the subtle expressions on their faces.

He closed his eyes and calmed down, and he could even hear the sound of insects hidden in the ground and the things buried in the darkness that were about to emerge, the smell of green grass.

This world seems to be different from before...

He could feel something like substance surging around him. He tried to make contact with these things, and they surged towards his body.

After entering the body, it wandered everywhere in his body, swimming along every meridians. The place where it passed was warm and extremely comfortable.

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