Recap
“Who is your brother?”
The little dragon cub said proudly: “My brother is really amazing, he’s the Dragon King!”
The eternal candle trembled violently for a moment.
Chi Yu’s soul lamp lit up brightly.
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Thousands of years ago, there was a small fishing village by the sea. Relying on the mountains for food and the seas to eat, most of the villagers here make a living by fishing and live a happy and peaceful life.
The peaceful life was broken one day when a man-eating monster appeared in the village. It was a black jiao that had been cultivating for two thousand years. It was extremely powerful and vicious. It not only eats people, but also eats little yaos in the sea. It does evil and is lawless.
This incident alarmed Yunyou in the sea, who decided to go ashore to capture the black jiao.
Yunyou was the youngest Dragon King in history. He had just turned a thousand years old at the time and was gentle and generous by nature. The dragon clan has a noble bloodline but its bloodline has withered. He was born a dragon, and was the king of this region of sea when he was born. He also has a younger brother of the same race, who is still a dragon egg.
The Dragon King loves his people like his own children and hates evil as much as the mortals residing near his territory. Of course, he will not allow the black jiao to cause trouble. However, no matter how powerful he is, he is still inferior to black jiao’s thousand years of Taoism. Head-on confrontation was never the best option for him.
After Yunyou came ashore, he was dressed luxuriously, had a handsome face, and had dragon horns on his head. At first glance, he is not a mortal. The fisherman who was fishing at the beach saw the Dragon King coming out of the sea and was so frightened that he shouted: “Monster!”
Then he fainted on the spot.
Yunyou: “…”
He is the Dragon King, not a monster.
Does he look scary like this? If he went into the village to look for the black jiao, he might not be able to find it, but instead frighten everyone into fainting. This is not his intention, and it might scare the snake away.*
*(打草惊蛇: when you hit away at the grass, the snakes will be alerted)
Yunyou thought for a moment and transformed into the appearance of a fisherman, so that he could keep a lower profile. He also wants to pretend to be a mortal to lure the snake out of its hole, trick the black jiao into eating him, and then catch it by surprise.
Anyway, the fisherman fainted temporarily, so there would be no flaw if he temporarily assumed his identity.
Just like that, Yunyou went into the village pretending to be a fisherman to check on the situation. He didn’t find the black jiao; instead, he bumped into a villager who was about to go home carrying a carp. The carp kept fluttering and struggling, with a faint aura lingering on its body, and it was obvious that it had attained spiritual enlightenment.
If it cultivates for some more time, it can become a human.
Ordinary people who do not know this, will only turn the carp into a meal. Now that he has seen the little carp, he can’t just sit idly by and do nothing. Doing one good deed every day counts as a meritorious deed.
Yunyou felt compassion and stepped forward to talk to the villager: “Uncle, where did your carp come from?”
The villager held up the fish and said, “I caught it from the river. I’m planning on going back to cook it and eat it.”
“I think this fish is big and beautiful, it has spirituality. It’s not good to eat it.” Yun You conjured up a copper plate in his hand, spread it out to trade with the fisherman, “This is the money I got from fishing today, it’s enough to buy this carp.”
This money could be exchanged for ten carps, and the villagers immediately said happily: “That’s enough, that’s enough.”
Yunyou held the carp and took it to the river to release it.
He said gently: “Little fish, swim quickly, don’t get caught again this time.”
The red carp lingered in the river, trying to remember the appearance of its benefactor.
Yunyou looked at it with a smile: “Can’t you find your way back home? Then I will play a tune for you. The little ones who hear this tune will all go home.”
He picked off a leaf, put it in his mouth and played a nice little tune for the carp.
This is their homecoming song back into the sea. Although Xiao Yu’er’s home is not in the sea, all things must go back home.
The red carp listened to the music and swam away reluctantly.
Yunyou watched it swim further and further away, disappearing at the end of the winding river.
It’s time for him to get down to business.
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The result of the battle between the Dragon King and the black jiao was that both sides suffered losses. The gap of a thousand years was irreparable. Although Yunyou drove the black jiao out of the area and he needed to spend time recuperating, he himself was seriously injured and had to return to the sea to meditate for a thousand years.
A lot of things can happen in a thousand years, and the world has been turned upside down. Overthrowing of the feudal dynasty and the establishment of modern society, spiritual energy became increasingly thin and yokais became increasingly rare. The black jiao has never been a demon willing to calmly absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to cultivate. He only wants to take shortcuts by absorbing the inner dans of other yokais. He made a comeback, disguised as a Taoist priest, and humans who encountered strange things would turn to him for help, giving him more opportunities to find yokais and hunt for inner dans.
Chi Yu is just one of his countless hunting targets. The black jiao accidentally discovered that Zhang Wenfan had a yao aura on his body. He must have been in contact with a yokai, so he decided on his next target. He approached Zhang Wenfan, warned him in passing and Zhang Wenfan betrayed Chi Yu without hesitation.
In fact, Chi Yu had not met the wrong person. Zhang Wenfan was indeed the reincarnation of the fisherman who was frightened by the Dragon King.
It’s just that the benefactor he met was not a fisherman in the first place.
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When they reached the beach, it was dusk.
The sparkling sea surface is reflected by the red sun and sunset like the scales of red carps, and the waves push up the carps swimming shallowly.
Tonight at twelve o’clock is Chi Yu’s thousandth birthday.
It is also the moment when the carp is about to jump over the dragon gate, so he must not miss it.
The little dragon cub and his friends walked into the sea and turned around to say goodbye to Rong Yu: “Big brother, goodbye! Thank you for sending us home!”
Rong Yu stood alone with his arms folded, too lazy to respond to them.
Anyway, it’s not him who will see them tomorrow.
Rong Yu watched as the little carrot heads disappeared into the sea, he stood alone on the beach watching the sunset.
“Hey, silly fish, I’ve avenged you and found your benefactor for you. I won’t help you jump through this final dragon gate.”
Jumping over the dragon gate is the most glorious moment in a carp’s life. It is the mission that he was born to strive for, and it is of great significance. This is not something that an outsider like him should replace.
He helped the original owner resolve his previous hatred, regret, and sadness, and returned the final joy, completion, and glory to the other person.
“This is your own destiny.” Rong Yu said calmly, “You can decide for yourself.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the soul lamp lit up brighter than ever before and a young man in red solidified from a shadow and appeared opposite Rong Yu.
He has a gentle expression. Although he has the same face,the feeling he gives off is completely different from Rong Yu’s.
When Chi Yu returned to the world, Rong Yu’s figure also faded little by little, turning back into a soul, and finally completely restored to his original appearance.
It was a face even more stunningly beautiful than Chi Yu’s. There is a little tear-shaped mole at the end of his eye, which burned with unrestraint, his lips are slightly raised in a naturally arrogant arc even when the corners of his lips are not raised, as if he was born to look down on all living beings with an appearance as beautiful and as passionate as fire.
Although Rong Yu did not use Chi Yu’s body, he used Chi Yu’s identity. Now that Chi Yu is back, this identity can no longer be used. He leaves the world plane and the clone disappears, what appears is his own soul.
Chi Yu looked at the beautiful young man in front of him, bowed slightly and said sincerely, “Thank you.”
“You’re welcome, go quickly. You still have three hours to cross the sea and find the Dragon Gate. If you miss the opportunity, you will have to wait another thousand years.” Rong Yu waved his hand to chase him away.
Chi Yu knew that the matter was urgent, nodded, turned around and walked to the beach.
“Although time has no meaning to me.” Rong Yu said casually, “I still wish you a happy thousand-year-old birthday and more happiness every year.”
That was the age that Chi Yu didn’t manage to live to in his previous life.
Chi Yu stopped, turned around and smiled gently at Rong Yu: “I also wish you all the happiness every year forward.”
He bowed again, then transformed into a beautiful red carp, glowing in the dusk, and jumped into the sea.
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All the creatures in the sea did not sleep well tonight.
While they were sleeping, they suddenly heard the deafening roar of a dragon coming from the depths of the sea.
The number of dragons is very small, and now only the Dragon King and the little dragon cub are left to support the legacy. Although there are legends that snakes can turn into jiaos and jiaos can turn into dragons. A fish can turn into a dragon by jumping over the dragon gate, but in this Dharma-Ending Age, this is just a legend, and no yokai has ever succeeded.
In the middle of the night, there is no way that Mr. Dragon King will roar to wake everyone up. The dragon roared a few times and disturbed people’s dreams. The little dragon cub is only a hundred years old, so it is not possible that he has such a loud voice.
Curiosity drove the yokais in the sea to come out to check. They saw a red dragon circling and galloping above the dragon gate, its scales shining red and majestic.
The Dragon King is a golden dragon, while the little dragon cub is a white dragon. Where did this red dragon come from?
There is a new member of the Dragon Clan!
Immediately, the water tribe went to inform the Dragon King.
Yunyou had been awakened early. He put on his clothes, and went to greet the new dragon clan member.
As soon as the Dragon King appeared, the red dragon became quiet, flashed red, turned into a human form and fell to the ground.
Chi Yu stood still and looked at him without saying a word for a long time.
“We haven’t had a new dragon in our dragon clan for a long time. Now that you are here, we will all be one family from now on.” Yunyou stepped forward and smiled, “There are many treasures in my dragon palace. Whatever you’d like, just pick one.”
Chi Yu looked at Yunyou’s clear and gentle eyes and thought to himself, it’s him.
He is not a greedy and demanding fisherman, but a gentle, generous, benevolent and kind-hearted Dragon King.
It was this same look in the eyes of the benefactor who had saved him back then.
How could he have made this mistake?
“Brother! I heard that a carp jumped over the dragon gate successfully. Let me see who it is!” The little dragon cub came over excitedly to join in the fun. When he saw Chi Yu, he was stunned, “Hey, it’s you? Brother, he’s the one I was talking about. The savior who defeated the black jiao effortlessly and sent me back!”
Chi Yu shook his head and did not hide anything: “I am not the one who saved you.”
The little dragon cub was confused: “It’s not you? But you obviously look exactly the same.”
“I used to think that the person who looked exactly the same was the same person who saved me too.” Chi Yu looked sideways at Yunyou with a gentle look in his eyes, “But no.”
Yunyou caught Chi Yu’s gaze, and his mind froze for a moment, and he asked out of nowhere, “Have we met before?”
Chi Yu lowered his eyes and smiled: “It’s a long story.”
Hundreds of rivers return to the sea, the fish leapt over the dragon gate.
The little fish who was saved by the Dragon King stumbled and staggered around in a loop, before finally finding his way back home.
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Chi Yu and his benefactor reunited, whether a different kind of fate can develop in the future is another story.
On one side, it’s a reunion, on the other side it’s a farewell.
Before Rong Yu left the world, he returned to Gu family’s home and visited Gu Minghuai again.
He is already a soul body and exists in a dimension higher than this world. Except for Chi Yu who could see him for a brief moment during the handover, all creatures in this world are unable to detect his existence, just like a God looking down on everything and unable to participate in it.
Rong Yu disappeared for a month, and Gu Minghuai appeared very haggard. When he woke up that day and saw that Rong Yu was not around, he thought that Rong Yu had gone to the swimming pool. He didn’t pay attention to it at first, but then he couldn’t find him anywhere in the house, and then he completely panicked.
He used all my strength to find him, and even put off work to search for him personally. However, his lover was gone as if he had disappeared from the world. He doesn’t know where he is, why he left, whether he is dead or alive.
Regret and pain tormented Gu Minghuai. He had thought that something was not right the night before Xiao Yu’er disappeared, he should have asked about it.
Unfortunately, there is no medicine for regrets in the world.
The empty home was missing an important person, and it was very uncomfortable to sleep in a bed alone. Gu Minghuai would put meat dishes on the table when he ate, saying, “Xiao Yu’er, today we have your favorite braised pork, eat it quickly.”
No one came to eat.
Gu Minghuai waited for a long time then he picked up his chopsticks, and ate all the meat dishes slowly.
In this way, it can be regarded as being eaten by a small fish.
Rong Yu sat aside and watched him eat.
He was right across the room, but Gu Minghuai couldn’t see him.
Blood Jade Bracelet: You disappeared, and he turned the world upside down looking for you.
Rong Yu whispered: “What kind of analogy is this?”
Was it as bad as that time he turned the heavens over and almost ran hell over?
“It’s only been a month.”
How can it be compared to the nine hundred and seventy-two vicissitudes of life he endured?
“Little Bracelet, can I take that Pisces jade pendant away?”
Blood Jade Bracelet: Yes.
“Then we’re done.” Rong Yu said, “Let’s go.”
The Blood Jade Bracelet hesitated for a moment and started the transmission.
At the last second when he was about to teleport away, Rong Yu suddenly said something, which made the Blood Jade Bracelet’s hair stand on end.
“We will meet again in the next world, isn’t that right? Lord God?”
Blood Jade Bracelet: !!!
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The moment Rong Yu left World no. 4082, the tail ring on Gu Minghuai’s finger flashed, and the room lit up with golden light.
The next second, the man disappeared out of thin air.
At the same time, all the data about the two people in World No. 4082 has been cleared. The world began to function normally, as if they had never been there.
Chi Yu, the Child of luck, successfully leaped over the dragon gate, found his savior, and lit up the first soul lamp.
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