Chapter 74 Renhua

It is impossible to stop feeling pain, to calm down, and to be calm right away. It is also impossible for me not to care about everything about Ru Xue. I need to understand everything. I suppressed the pain in my heart and said to Ru Xue, “No matter what, you have decided to tell me everything tonight. Can you tell me the truth about what happened and what you are going to do, from beginning to end?”

“Yes,” Ru Xue said softly, and began to tell me the whole story.

I didn’t expect that what I heard from Ru Xue would shock me so much. Everything, including the Immortal Tomb, turned out to be different from what I had imagined.

“Chengyi, since I have to explain everything, I want to say that I will definitely go to the Immortal Tomb, and I will start with the Immortal Tomb.” This was the first thing that Ru Xue said to me.

Ru Xue began to tell me everything, and I began to try to digest everything Ru Xue said.

At first, it was from the time I went to the Yueyan Miao Village and told Ruoxue about going to the old forest in the northeast. Ruoxue had originally restrained herself from saying anything to me, but that time, for some reason, there was a voice in her heart that said she had to go to the old forest in the northeast with me.

At that time, Ru Xue didn’t think too much, and simply thought that she was too repressed, so she wanted to “indulge” herself once and accompany me on a trip.

After entering the old forest in the northeast, there is no need to elaborate on everything that happened. She just had an increasingly obvious intuition that she might completely end the relationship with me for whatever reason.

And when she understood everything, it all started with the cave of the blue-eyed fox…

At that time, I once told Chengxin and the others about the enchanting heart stone. Unfortunately, my understanding of the enchanting heart stone was limited to some records in the handwritten notes of my master, and I didn’t really understand it.

It was only after Ru Xue’s explanation that I realized that the pair of the largest enchanting stones we saw when we first entered the cave were not storing the will of the blue-eyed fox as I had thought, but the will of another person. At that time, she had already passed on her strong will of memory to Ru Xue.

Who was she? She was Renhua, a talented witch from the Yueyan Miao village long ago!

According to Ru Xue, she was almost the most dazzling and most regrettable legend in the Yueyan Miao village. Why was she dazzling? Because she broke a long-standing tradition in the Miao village, combining the roles of witch and witch doctor.

As Ru Xue explained to me, “Generally speaking, men are more talented at witchcraft, while women are more talented at raising goblins. This is the tradition in all the villages that have been passed down for generations, with men being the witches and women being the goblins.

Renhua was dazzling like the sun, using her supreme sorcery to leave all the “old-timers” in the village speechless, and her outstanding skill in raising gus also won the hearts and minds of everyone in the village.

What kind of genius is this?

“I was wrong when I said she was as dazzling as the sun. In fact, she was a shooting star that flashed across the night sky, disappeared, and became a legend.” After describing Renhua’s genius, Ru Xue suddenly added this sentence.

From Ru Xue’s story, I knew that according to the records of the village, there was a saying about Renhua that when she was a child, she had disappeared for a month. After she returned, everyone discovered her dazzling talent.

Later, she often disappeared, even after she became the village’s great witch and the witch of the village.

She protected the village for three years, during which time she cultivated powerful gubugs for the village and taught several talented shamans.

But after three years, she suddenly left, saying, “I’m going to find an answer, the answer to what it means to belong to a village.” Then she disappeared.

Originally, her departure did not attract much attention from the people in the village, because she was always like this, her whereabouts were a mystery, and she would often ‘disappear’ for a period of time before returning.

But this time, unlike before, she didn’t come back.

Five years, ten years, people still had hope. Twenty years, thirty years, people had already given up hope. Fifty years, a hundred years, she finally became a legend in the village, a legend that people talked about with emotion 鈥� the sun-like genius Renhua, who had disappeared!

“Is this bug related to Renhua?” I vaguely grasped the point of the matter and asked Ruoxue.

“Well, that’s true. Renhua came here to find this immortal tomb, the so-called Dragon Tomb!” Ru Xue said to me.

The Dragon Tomb, this is the shocking truth. It turns out that the truth about this fairy tomb is not a fairy tomb at all, but the tomb of a dragon. It’s shocking, isn’t it? It’s hard to believe, isn’t it? Ru Xue told me that Renhua’s memory had such a passage: The dragon came from Kunlun, swam between the clouds, and eventually fell to the mortal world due to unknown reasons, seriously injured, and its arrival created the Changbai Mountains and Kunlun Mountains. A prosperous era of the great demon!

It is almost an “iron-clad fact” that there is a dragon in Changbai Mountain. Even Lao Hui and Xiao Bei have mentioned it vaguely. I didn’t expect that I would hear about a dragon tomb and the creation of a great demon from Ru Xue, even though I haven’t seen the dragon.

For some reason, Renhua was obsessed with finding this dragon tomb, and these horrible bugs were bred by Renhua because of her tomb-hunting.

It turns out that Wu Laogui was not the first group to discover the so-called tomb of the immortal. It turns out that before them, there was at least one Renhua.

“Chengyi, I just told you that I was the tomb keeper, but the truth is that I was trying to suppress these bugs. But in fact, the Dragon Tomb is really guarded by four great demons, and they are the real tomb keepers. This is why the souls of the four great demons must be gathered together to open the tomb.” Ru Xue said lightly.

So that’s the truth. I thought about it carefully. Yes, why would four powerful demons appear in an old forest? It turns out that in a certain era, a dragon once fell here.

A dragon is neither human nor god. In our Taoist understanding, it is a demon that has reached the pinnacle of its power! If it exists, everything is easily explained, and it is only natural that the great demon who has received its favor guards its tomb!

As Xue told me, the Dragon’s Tomb is far from simple. There are definitely later arrivals, but for some reason, the tomb was sealed, and those later arrivals were also buried in it, even causing the tomb sealing formation to become more and more powerful. I don’t know what it was sealing.

Renhua’s arrival later, with her genius, she was unable to open the tomb-sealing formations. After all, Renhua is a witch, and she is indeed powerless against Taoist formations!

However, she knew that the core of the tomb-sealing formation was actually the souls of four great demons! And the outer formations might not be impossible to break in other ways!

So…

“So, there are these bugs! You’ve seen the black bugs before. They were originally cultivated from some of the bugs that Renhua collected. The earliest prototypes were the common black bugs you saw, only a few! They were cultivated by Renhua using a special method that added ‘Kunlun’ to them, and even the bug king was cultivated by Renhua using pure ‘Kunlun’.” Ru Xue explained to me.

“Kunlun’s thing?” I was stunned. I didn’t want to think about it, but I just thought of the purple plants and purple bugs!

“Yes, the Kunlun thing, after getting some of Renhua’s memories, I realized that it wasn’t just the Heiyan Miao Village that got the purple bugs. The Yueyan Miao Village also had the Kunlun thing. At that time, Renhua…” At this point, Ruoxue’s face also showed a confused expression, and then she continued said, “At that time, Renhua was very clear about its ominousness, so as the one who had all the power, she never thought of letting such a dangerous thing exist in the world, but kept it herself. But I don’t understand why she used it to cultivate these insects that devour the heavens.”

“She wanted to use the insects’ ability to devour to break the formation. It’s simple. These insects can devour. If there are enough of them, they will devour the foundation of the formation that Renhua doesn’t understand, and they will break any formation. After all, the insects don’t know the formation and don’t understand it. They just swallow, and they can always destroy the formation. As for why she did this, it can only be explained that this Dragon Tomb has become an obsession in her heart, making her desperate.” I thought about it, and only this explanation is reasonable.

After all, Ru Xue is not Renhua, and no one can get all of her memories. Even the enchanting heart stone, which is so powerful at recording will, can only record the most crucial part of her will, not all of it.

“Well, maybe it can be explained like that. But the key point is that Renhua failed, leaving behind a bunch of pests that are infinitely harmful. The reason for her failure is because someone stopped her, and she finally realized it.” Ru Xue said.

I have a hunch that the person who stopped her was very important. Although I still felt unbearable pain in my heart, I couldn’t help but feel nervous at the moment.