Originated from mountains and seas, life never ends

I don’t know what the two of them talked about in the room. During the meal, I saw that both of them had red eyes and were silent as if they were worried about something.

However, Qin Xiao didn't care about these things. He just watched Qin Jinyi and the others talking.

Not sure if it was because he had recovered from the stress, Qin Xiao finally realized that he was extremely tired and had no energy at all. Perhaps it was because he had been tense for too long, so he felt endless fatigue just after adjusting his state.

Except for going out a few times in the first two days after returning home, Qin Xiao stayed in bed the rest of the time, buried himself in the soft bed, and slept soundly. Many times, Qin Jiuyuan brought meals to his room.

Even when Qiongqi went out a few times, he didn't care. He just opened his tired eyes, looked at Qiongqi, and then hugged the quilt and continued to sleep.

What was strange was that Qiongqi did not eat people again, but just turned into the size of a cat and wandered around Rongcheng.

Seeing this, although Qin Xiuyun had many things to ask Qin Xiao, he swallowed them back after seeing Qin Xiao's depressed mental state.

Never mind, no rush...

Qin Yun'an did not show the same symptoms as Qin Xiao. The day after Qin Xiuyun came back, he held a meeting with the elders. After seeing the living Qin Yun'an and learning that Qin Xiao had also returned, Qin Ao's expression was obviously wrong. Qin Xiuyun looked at him seriously. Although he didn't say anything, there was a chill in his eyes.

"Qin Yun'an is back, so the ancestral tablet can be removed... I have also rejected the alliance proposed by the Huang family. The Fishing Festival is in two days, and I hope there will be no more accidents in the clan." Qin Xiuyun said in a deep voice.

Qin Ao avoided Qin Xiuyun's gaze and said nothing.

"According to what you said, Qin Xiao is back too?" Qin Yansheng asked.

Qin Xiuyun and Qin Yunan looked at her.

"Yes, what's the matter?"

Qin Yansheng's eyes turned slightly: "Should we ask the child to come over to see us? After all, he just came out of that place... I heard that place is quite weird, don't bring any weird things."

Qin Xiuyun frowned at first, then he thought of something and relaxed a little: "He is resting now. I will ask him after he has rested."

"Then...it's okay." Qin Yansheng said nothing more.

Qin Yuxing, who had been silent, suddenly asked, "Do you need me to accompany you?"

Seeing Qin Xiuyun shifting his gaze towards him, Qin Yuxing still kept a smile on his face: "After all, my attributes can distinguish true from false, and I am very good at asking such questions."

Qin Xiuyun was about to refuse: "No——"

"Let Yu Xing follow." The old man, whose face was already wrinkled, said, "In case someone talks about you favoring your own family."

Qin Xiuyun paused and glanced at the other silent elders and Qin Yun'an.

Qin Yun'an thought of something and glanced at Qin Xiuyun, as if he wanted to ask something, but stopped himself.

"...Okay." Qin Xiuyun finally agreed.

The tough atmosphere suddenly relaxed, and Qin Ao's expression became much better.

After the meeting was over, Qin Yun'an confirmed that only he and Qin Xiuyun were around, then he asked, "Did you know that Qin Xiao is a corpse binder?"

Qin Xiuyun paused and looked at him with an unclear look: "Not the Corpse Binder."

"what?"

"He explained to me that he is not a Corpse Binder." Qin Xiuyun lowered his eyes, "It has also been verified."

Qin Yunan paused, as if he wanted to say something, but when he met Qin Xiuyun's gaze, he closed his mouth.

During the past few days of communication, he also discovered that Qin Xiuyun obviously did not trust him very much.

If you think about it, it is understandable. Anyone would be suspicious if their brother, who they thought had died decades ago, suddenly stood in front of them one day and told them that he was still alive, but was trapped and couldn't get out.

Qin Yun'an lowered his eyes.

Not to mention Qin Xiuyun who became the clan leader.

The current Qin Xiuyun was completely different from the lively and cheerful child in his memory. Besides, after so many years, it was already good enough that Qin Xiuyun accepted him back, and Qin Xiao was his son. No matter what, he should trust Qin Xiao more instead of himself.

So Qin Yun'an swallowed the next words and said nothing more. He nodded to show that he understood.

Qin Xiuyun seemed to see his disappointment and patted his shoulder: "Will you come then?"

Qin Yun'an smiled and said, "No need. I just got out of here. I'm exhausted after these decades. I won't run around anymore. I'll take a break..."

After saying that, he turned around and walked out.

Qin Xiuyun looked at Qin Yunan's back with a complicated look.

Qin Xiao slept for more than ten days in a row. Sometimes Qin Xiuyun would come to see him, but he didn't say anything to him, just sat quietly beside his bed and looked at him.

Qin Xiao felt a little uncomfortable at first, but later he was so sleepy that he fell asleep as usual. In a daze, he seemed to feel someone touching his face, but because the breath was familiar and he didn't sense any malice, he ignored it.

Qin Xiuyun slowly injected Qi into Qin Xiao's body, explored it around, frowned, stared at the sleeping child with a complicated expression, and sighed after a while.

Qin Xiuyun was stunned when he saw the black cat beside Qin Xiao. He stretched out his hand tentatively. The cat just glanced at him indifferently and ignored him, looking aloof.

Qin Xiuyun was not embarrassed. Seeing that it had no intention of getting close to him, he did not force it. He sat quietly beside Qin Xiao for a while and then left.

The next time he came, he brought a bowl of dried fish, put it on Qin Xiao's table, and told him that he could eat it, but not to eat too much.

The black cat sat on the table, its dark golden pupils staring straight at him. For some reason, Qin Xiuyun felt that it could understand human language.

Suddenly, the black cat gave a mocking smile, as if showing some disdain.

Qin Xiuyun felt that it was not an ordinary cat, and wanted to get to know Qin Xiao, but because Qin Xiao had been in a coma, he had to give up.

Qin Yun'an had mentioned this black cat to me.

Qin Yun'an asked him to drink with him at that time, saying that he had always been curious about what wine tasted like, but had never tasted it, so he must try it when he returned.

As a result, I got drunk after less than two drinks.

Qin Yun'an held the wine glass loosely, and the wine in the glass seemed to be shaking with his movements, but it never spilled.

After getting drunk, Qin Yun'an's eyes were blurry, his body was crooked, and he leaned on the table with a red face: "I'm telling you, don't provoke that Qiongqi next to him... Really, your son is really amazing."

Qin Yunan fell asleep, his chin resting on the table, playing with his wine glass drunkenly: "I have been there for so many years... This is the first time I have seen a child like this."

Qin Xiao had confessed this to Qin Xiuyun before, so Qin Xiuyun naturally knew why he was different from other kids. He didn't say anything, but turned his eyes slightly and looked at Qin Yun'an.

"How different?"

Qin Yun'an was already drunk, but he still poured wine into his mouth. He drank the wine in the glass until there was not a drop left. Then he collapsed on the table, staggering: "It's just different... It's scary..."

Qin Yun'an mumbled something and said something else, but Qin Xiuyun could no longer hear clearly and just stared at Qin Yun'an with his deep eyes.

Qin Yun'an finally shut up and fell asleep on the table. Before falling asleep, he muttered softly, "It's great... You still recognize me."

Qin Xiuyun's hand holding the cup paused, and the wine instantly slid down the edge of the cup, and the cold liquid seeped through his fingertips.

Looking at Qin Yun'an's peaceful sleeping face, Qin Xiuyun didn't know what he was thinking and sat in silence for a long time.

Until Qin Yun'an started acting crazy while drunk.

Qin Yun'an was really crazy when he was drunk. He put his arms around his neck and pinched his face with his hands.

"Let me see...you've lost a lot of weight over the years." The smell of alcohol from Qin Yun'an's mouth gave Qin Xiuyun a headache.

Qin Xiuyun wanted to stop it, but he couldn't get rid of Qin Yun'an, so he could only maintain this half-pulling and half-pulling posture.

"I remember when I left... you were only this old, and you followed me around and called me brother every day..."

Qin Yun'an said this, stretched out his fingers to make a fist size, and laughed as if he thought of something interesting.

"That's great... You were so cute back then, just like your daughter. You didn't have a gloomy face every day, looking at people with those unpredictable eyes. You believed everything I said..."

“How wonderful…”

Qin Yun'an said this with a hint of sadness in his eyes.

"Why did it change..."

"People grow up." Qin Xiuyun closed his eyes and said softly, "Just like you, you were not like this before."

To be honest, he didn't have many memories of Qin Yun'an, but the figure he chased when he was a child was always particularly impressive. Even though the face back then was already blurry, he would still remember the figure that always had its back to him but would stop and wait for him to catch up.

Although he didn't quite remember the details of their time together, he had the impression that Qin Yun'an was a steady brother who would never speak to him in such a nonchalant manner.

When her mother was alive, she once joked with her that Qin Yun'an would become a conservative and dull person when he grew up.

Qin Xiuyun glanced at Qin Yunan who was leaning on his shoulder with his eyes closed, and his thoughts were complicated.

What changed him?

Is it time or experience?

Qin Xiuyun didn't know, but he was later pulled by Qin Yun'an to talk a lot. Before he asked, Qin Yun'an told him all the hardships he had experienced in the past few years, crying and laughing, and finally buried himself in Qin Xiuyun's arms and cried until he fell asleep.

Qin Xiuyun's eyes were heavy, and whenever he thought of Qin Yun'an's words, he couldn't help but sigh.

Because they were too young when they entered the mountains, many children had no basic sense of right and wrong, good and evil. Even if they did, they would be influenced by years of brutal experiences and lose their nature, eventually becoming unrecognizable.

It’s good enough that Qin Yun’an didn’t turn into a demon who kills people at the slightest disagreement.

Qin Xiuyun was thinking about it and was a little absent-minded.

He looked at the remaining wine in the glass and drank it all in a moment.

One day, when Qin Xiao woke up from a deep sleep, he forced himself to answer the questions from Qin Xiuyun and Qin Yuxing.

The questioning went smoothly. Qin Xiuyun and the others did not ask anything too secretive. They simply asked about what happened in the mountain and the final result. When Qin Yuxing asked if he was familiar with the black beast that caused such a commotion, he denied it. The talisman still lay quietly on the table, with no intention of exploding.

It was only when Qin Xiao was alone with Qin Xiuyun that he told him about Qiongqi.

After hearing this, Qin Xiuyun had a complicated expression and asked again and again, is there really no way to refuse?

Qin Xiao shook his head and told the truth: "I am not familiar with him, and I don't know what he is thinking, but he is very powerful, much stronger than me, so... there is no way to stop him."

"So what do you think of me—"

"Of course you can't either."

Qin Xiuyun was interrupted by an unfamiliar male voice before he could finish his words.

He turned around suddenly and saw a strange child standing behind him, staring at him with a smile.

The child looked about the same age as Qin Xiao. He was wearing a black robe with a furry collar covering his fair neck. Dark gold patterns were displayed on the edge of the robe. He had black boots on his feet, and his entire body was in black.

The child has three-dimensional facial features and deep eye sockets. His black curly hair falls over his shoulders. His messy bangs cannot hide the fierceness in his eyes. His dark golden pupils are eerie and cold. He looks at people as if he is looking at food, always with a sense of aggression.

There were several bright white patterns on Qiongqi's left face. The strange lines went down from his eyes until they were hidden in the fluffy collar.

Looking at the child who looked childish but had an evil look on his face, Qin Xiuyun was stunned.

"Don't worry, I promised him that I won't eat you." Qiongqi's dark golden eyes curved slightly, revealing his white fangs on both sides, "Besides, I haven't eaten anyone for a long time."

Although he said so, Qin Xiuyun felt very difficult when looking at his evil eyes.

Just being stared at by this ferocious beast that looked like a child made his back unconsciously soaked with cold sweat.

Danger.

This was the first impression that Qiongqi gave to Qin Xiuyun.

"What... do you want? Why are you following Qin Xiao?" Qin Xiuyun frowned, clenched his fists, and asked while trying to remain calm.

"It has nothing to do with you." Qiongqi's eyes moved slightly, glanced at him, then looked at Qin Xiao, the smile on his face deepened, "Come to think of it, I have helped you before... Why are you always so wary of me?"

"Not really." Qin Xiao's eyes were indifferent, not nervous, "He is my father, so he naturally has the right to know about you who are following me."

"You haven't told your brother about this." Qiongqi smiled contemptuously, as if he had thought of something, raised his eyebrows, and looked at Qin Xiuyun, "Could it be... that he told you about his past?"

Qiongqi narrowed his eyes and looked Qin Xiuyun up and down.

"Qin Xiao did mention his past to me." Qin Xiuyun straightened his spine and said seriously, "But these seem to have nothing to do with you. This is a matter between us father and son."

Qiongqi's eyes changed, the smile on his lips deepened, he snorted and said nothing more: "Then you guys can do whatever you want."

With that said, he disappeared from the spot.

Qin Xiuyun stared at the place where he disappeared worriedly and wanted to say something.

"He went back to my room." Qin Xiao said in a calm voice.

Qin Xiuyun relaxed, but suddenly remembered his attitude towards him a few days ago, and looked at Qin Xiao fiercely: "He..."

"It shouldn't be a big deal." Qin Xiao stood up and prepared to go back to sleep. He was still a little sleepy, but seeing that Qin Xiuyun had been hesitant to speak in the past few days, he perked up and cooperated with Qin Xiuyun's questioning.

"Really...are you okay?" Qin Xiuyun's eyes were complicated.

Qin Xiao responded: "He is usually quite stable."

"What's unusual about that?"

"…It's unusual, but we can't stop it."

"..."