Chapter 2068 Happiness and Responsibility

In the northeast of the Mountain Continent, there is a continuous mountain range. Not far from the official road, there is a village like a peach garden.

There are not many people in the village, only a few hundred, most of whom are hunters who rely on hunting the many wild animals in the dense forests of the mountains for a living. This was not originally a village, but was just a wasteland where hunters rested in the earliest days.

One year, a group of officials who had fled from the capital came here with their families. Slowly, as time passed, this place became what it is today.

In the middle of the village, there is a house surrounded by a fence. In the yard, there are some chickens and ducks. A teenage girl, wearing a patched linen dress, is holding a dustpan and feeding the poultry.

The smoke from the chimney rises, and it is clear that breakfast is being prepared in the house in the early morning.

“Mother, I had another dream last night. I dreamt that I became a fairy again,” the girl said with a cheerful laugh as she fed the poultry.

“You’re so big now, but you still dream of becoming a fairy. When I was your age, I was already married to your father.” A gentle voice came from inside the house.

“That’s because my father was the best hunter in the village. I heard that there were many people who wanted to marry my father.” The girl giggled, her expression was very cute. She was not particularly beautiful, but she had a pure and lovely temperament.

“Who told you that?” A young woman walked out of the house. She was dressed in simple clothes, but her beauty was undeniable. She glared at the girl, pretending to be angry, and held a wok in her hand.

The girl was about to speak, but from outside the door came hearty laughter and words.

“I said it.” The door was pushed open and a strong middle-aged man walked in. He had a bow and arrow on his shoulder and was carrying a dead little animal. There were dried bloodstains on his legs, but it was unclear whether they belonged to the little animal or to him.

“Dad!” The girl was surprised and hurriedly put down the dustpan and went forward.

“Wow, it’s a leopard! The fur is so beautiful! It’s great!” The girl’s eyes lit up and she jumped for joy.

“It took so long this time. Usually he’s back in two or three days.” The young woman hurried over and helped the middle-aged man take down the small beast and the bow and arrow.

“The girl said she wanted a better fur coat, and on the way she met this leopard, so she was delayed in the pursuit,” the man said, smiling as he touched the girl’s head.

“What happened to your leg?” The young woman saw the blood on the man’s leg at a glance and quickly bent down to look. There was a shallow scratch.

“It’s okay, with Xiaobai here, the wild animals in the mountains can’t harm me.” The man laughed, and suddenly a black shadow rushed in from outside the gate, and immediately jumped onto the girl, sticking out its tongue and licking her.

It looked like a tiger, which was very surprising.

“Xiao Bai was in the mountains this time and learned to roar like a tiger. Sometimes I really don’t understand. Is it a tiger or a mongrel dog…” The man looked at the mongrel dog and smiled wryly.

“Xiao Bai is really good, really obedient.” The girl pushed the big black dog away and stroked its fur.

The terrier seemed to enjoy it very much, and even rolled over, exposing its belly, so that the girl could scratch it like an itch in a belly laugh. In the comfort, it made a series of cooing sounds, which also sounded like a tiger.

In the midst of this laughter, the family did not notice that a white figure was floating in the sky. Wang Lin looked down and saw the happiness of the family, especially the smile of the young girl.

“Xiao Bai… I almost forgot that it was also brought here and reincarnated. I just didn’t expect… that it would reincarnate into a big dog… and look at its appearance, it has already become a spirit, with good cultivation.” In his smile, the earth dog lying on its back on the ground enjoying itself suddenly turned its eyes, as if it had seen Wang Lin in the sky, and revealed a dazed look.

The look on his face instantly turned to fear, and the big dog blinked, even the sound of cooing stopped.

“Oh? You recognize me?” Wang Lin looked at the dog, saw the fear in its eyes, and smiled even more.

However, the dog’s unusual behavior did not attract the family’s attention, because the girl was looking at her father and talking intimately to him.

“Dad, I had another dream last night. I dreamed that I became a fairy.”

“Well, immortals are good. The girl will definitely become an immortal in the future.” The man laughed.

“I don’t want to be an immortal. I always feel like I’ve been an immortal in a dream for a lifetime, but I’m not happy. I’ve never been happy. On the contrary, I’m very happy now. I’m just dreaming. Anyway, I don’t want to be an immortal.

I want to be with my parents for the rest of my life.” The girl’s words revealed a sense of seriousness.

Her words made Wang Lin pause, his eyes showing a complex expression. He glanced at the girl’s happy smile and at the peaceful mountain village. After a long time, Wang Lin took another deep look, and then disappeared into the sky.

“Perhaps, this kind of life is what she wants…”

That night, the girl had another dream. In the dream, she seemed to have another name, called Zhou Ru, and there was a black tiger called Xiaobai by her side. She always liked to bully the tiger, making it stand on its head…

She also had an uncle, who was like a close relative to her.

In the dream, her uncle asked her if she wanted to leave with him. She was silent for a long time, and then she told her uncle, who was like a close relative, that she wanted to stay here…

That night, the mongrel dog also had a dream. It dreamed that it had become a tiger, dominating the world of beasts, being served by countless tigresses and other beasts, and enjoying itself immensely.

It also dreamed that a man in white appeared in front of it. This man, whom it knew, was the same despicable guy who had captured it in the first place. This man gave it some delicious pills and then patted it on the head before leaving.

“When one day, Zhou Ru wants to pursue her dream, you will open her memory…” After the man left, these words lingered in the mind of the earth dog for a long time.

The vast ancestral city of the Xianzu, because of its vast scope, can always be seen in the city under the alternation of the sun and the moon, and at the same time, a scene appears. At this moment, the location of the ancestral city palace is shrouded in darkness, but it is not pitch black. There are many lights flashing in the palace.

The entire palace was silent.

A lone figure emerged from the darkness and looked down at the palace below. The figure stood there for a long time, and as it took a step, the lights in the palace flickered and became even more hazy, as if different spaces were overlapping into a shadow.

It was not until the man stepped onto the square in front of the palace that the lights slowly returned to normal.

Wang Lin looked at this place. He had almost died here that year, and he was unable to take the madman with him. He could only watch as it turned into a mountain peak, becoming the existence that suppressed the spirits of the seventy-two continents and slept eternally.

“When I left, I made a vow that when I came back here, I would revive the madman! No one would be able to stop me!” Wang Lin muttered, and his footsteps struck the ground.

With this step, the ground of the entire palace trembled slightly without anyone noticing. This tremor was not of the real earth here, but of the space that overlapped with it.

Wang Lin’s surroundings were blurred, and his figure disappeared in a flash of light. When he appeared, he arrived at the location of the underground palace!

The entire underground palace was a blur, much like when he had come here before, except that there was only one of the many peaks on the ground left.

This mountain, which pierced the sky, was extremely majestic. Standing outside this mountain, Wang Lin felt the madman sleeping in the mountain.

There were countless restrictions and seals inside and outside this mountain peak, and even the cultivation of the Great Celestial Emperor would often take a long time to break them.

Wang Lin raised his right hand and waved it toward the mountain. Immediately, the mountain roared, and it was seen that the mountain suddenly collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye. A large amount of rubble fell off, and in the blink of an eye, it quickly shrank from the majestic mountain. All the seals and prohibitions within it disappeared in the wave of Wang Lin’s hand.

As the mountain collapsed, the body of the madman appeared. He lay there quietly, his eyes closed, sleeping soundly. On his body, there were fluctuations of the Great Celestial Emperor’s cultivation.

Wang Lin walked forward and came to the side of the madman. He crouched down and looked at the sleeping madman. He raised his right hand and touched the center of his brow. Under this point, the madman’s body suddenly trembled.

Wang Lin closed his eyes, his consciousness spread out, and entered the body of the madman along his fingers to awaken him.

Time slowly passed, and in the blink of an eye it was half an hour. Wang Lin opened his eyes, revealing a complex look, and looked at the madman. After a moment of silence, he slowly spoke.

“If you really decide to do this, I choose to respect you… take care.” Wang Lin stood up, sighed, and walked toward the sky, disappearing in the underground palace.

After Wang Lin left, the madman opened his eyes and looked at the place where Wang Lin had disappeared for a long, long time.

“I have been confused all my life… crazy all my life… but I am still the descendant of the Immortal Ancestor… Even Daozhen is dead. If I leave again, the Immortals will… have no emperor.

I also want to leave here, leave the Xiangang continent, but now that I have the legacy of the Immortal Ancestor, I have a backbone that I should bear… This is my responsibility.

I have figured it out during my sleep.” The madman sat up, his eyes revealing a rare determination, and he muttered bitterly.

“Protect the Xian race and pass it down from generation to generation. When I don’t have to force myself to do it for the sake of my responsibility one day, Wang Lin, I will go find you…” The madman stood up. He was wearing a robe and a crown, and his expression no longer had the slightest trace of insanity from before, but instead had the majesty of a Xian emperor.