Chapter 3. Live

How can you be considered to be truly alive?

Zhang Fengyun’s answer to this question is that having one’s own consciousness and feelings and being able to do what one thinks is truly alive.

This definition is actually very simple for many people, but it is very difficult for Zhang Fengyun.

He was fourteen years old this year, but he had already passed six years like a walking corpse. During these six years, he had no consciousness. The time when he woke up at midnight became the time he cherished the most.

"Father, where are we?" When Zhang Fengyun woke up, he was in a forest.

Zhang Chengxuan sat on a tree stump, looking at Zhang Fengyun who had just opened his eyes and said, "This is the dense forest outside the sacred mountain."

"We have already arrived in the sacred mountain?" Zhang Fengyun reluctantly supported himself and said weakly.

"Well, I've been in for a while. How do you feel now?" Zhang Chengxuan took Zhang Fengyun's vein and injected a spiritual energy into Zhang Fengyun's body, but he was still like a mud bull like a sea, without any movement.

Zhang Fengyun pulled his arm back and signaled that Zhang Chengxuan was useless to do this, and then asked: "There is a danger in the sacred mountain. Did my father find anything wrong?"

"This is just the periphery of the sacred mountain. What's wrong with it?" Zhang Chengxuan patted Zhang Fengyun's back of his hand and helped him up with force: "We really need to do it as soon as possible. You don't have much time to wake up. Let's go into the mountain now."

"Father." Zhang Fengyun pulled Zhang Chengxuan with a hesitation look, "Or, let's go back, it's too dangerous here."

Zhang Chengxuan looked at his son, with a firm look on his tender face, smiled slightly, and his right hand covered Zhang Fengyun's head: "Fengyun, don't worry about that. I have discussed with your mother. This trip must be your illness first. Your mother gave me the order to die. If you can't go back, I don't have to go back. However, even if we two can't go back this trip, your mother will still have your sister with you."

"Father, it was my son who was dragged down."

"This is not a time to be pretentious." Zhang Chengxuan squatted down and said, "Come on, come on, dad carry you into the mountain."

Zhang Fengyun obediently climbed onto Zhang Chengxuan's back, and a water flashed in his eyes.

Zhang Chengxuan firmly fixed Zhang Fengyun on his back, and his toes were a little on the ground, and he became empty.

Zhang Fengyun held Zhang Chengxuan's neck and turned his head to listen to the whistling wind coming from his ears. Zhang Chengxuan protected him firmly with his spiritual energy. Even if his body was weak, he would not feel uncomfortable during this high-speed flight.

Being a mother is strong, being a father is strong. This is an eternal truth.

The sacred mountain is vast and boundless. Even if Zhang Chengxuan flew with all his strength for a moment, he had just flew out of the dense forest. There was still only a shadow in the mountains in the distance.

"It's not a solution to continue like this."

Stopped on a small hill, Zhang Chengxuan whispered.

"Father, what's wrong? Is there something wrong?" Zhang Fengyun got off his father's back and stood behind Zhang Chengxuan with his cuffs.

Zhang Chengxuan narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance and said, "This place is too big, it is not a solution to continue to find it like this."

"What should I do?"

"Don't panic, dad has a way." Zhang Chengxuan took out a piece of blue and white talisman paper from his arms on the ground and waved it a few times in the air. The talisman paper spontaneously ignited without fire, and with Zhang Chengxuan's actions, he drew marks in the air.

This talisman paper was asked by Zhang Chengxuan from the Contemporary Zhuang Sheng of Nanhuatai. He asked for it for more than twenty times before he obtained this talisman. According to Zhuang Sheng, as long as this talisman paper is ignited in this vast mountain range, someone will naturally come to guide them.

As everyone knows, Taoists have always been good at deducing the secrets of heaven and have a network of communication all over the world. Nanhua Taizhuang Sheng is already a sage in the realm of sages, a great level higher than Zhang Chengxuan. What he said is extremely important in Zhang Chengxuan's heart.

Now I'm waiting to pick up the people.

"Will someone really come?" Zhang Fengyun stared at the surroundings cautiously. The talisman paper had been burning for a while.

"Well..." Zhang Chengxuan was also worried, but these could not be expressed in front of Zhang Fengyun.

"Who ordered the talisman paper?" A lazy voice suddenly rang beside them, but no one was seen.

Zhang Chengxuan was shocked. He didn't realize that someone was approaching? Could it be that he was a powerful man who could not come out of the world? He bowed with his fists and said loudly: "To Zhang Chengxuan of China, and to pay homage to seniors with his son Zhang Fengyun."

"Okay, okay, don't mess with those useless, there is no senior here."

Zhang Chengxuan raised his head in surprise and saw an owl floating in front of him with wings shining. Is this... a monster?

"Uh... May I ask this... Brother Eagle..." The monster is just a monster. As long as it can save its son, no matter what race it is!

"Stop." The owl saw that he was about to say the sour and rotten literati again, and quickly interrupted him: "We are not familiar with each other, so don't care about those useless etiquettes. Since Zhuang Sheng gave you all the talismans, there must be something wrong. Tell me, what's wrong with you?"

Zhang Chengxuan didn't bother: "The dog was infected with a strange poison. Zhuang Sheng said that only in the sacred mountain can there be a chance of rescue. I came here for this."

"Oh." The owl flew closer with its wings, looked at Zhang Fengyun and asked, "Are you poisoned?"

"Yes." Zhang Fengyun lowered his head and avoided the owl's gaze. Just as he glanced at him, he felt like he had been stripped of his clothes.

"Okay, come with me, don't lose it. The sacred mountain is very dangerous. Once you are lost, I can't save you." The owl opened his mouth and spitted out a jade pendant and put it on his neck. The jade pendant exuded a mysterious and indescribable aura, and instantly shocked the countless peeping gazes around him.

Zhang Chengxuan felt a chill in his heart. With his cultivation level in Taixu Realm, he could also be said to be in the middle and upper level on this continent. He had never noticed so many sights around him before. Sure enough, the dangers of the sacred mountain were not groundless and spread rumors.

"Can you go?" The owl circled around and screamed above Zhang Chengxuan's head.

Zhang Chengxuan raised Zhang Fengyun on his back and nodded: "Let's go."

The owl watched the two men ready, and then let out another strange cry and soared into the air.

Zhang Chengxuan also turned into a stream of light and followed closely.

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Zhang Fengyun looked at the white light running around in front of him, and suddenly felt a little at a loss.

He hasn't felt this way for a long time.

Since he was poisoned when he was eight years old, he has been used to being locked in the darkness. Today, he suddenly entered a new place and was somewhat unaccustomed to it.

During the years he was poisoned, he was not unconscious, but the darkness was like a round eggshell, imprisoning him inside without seeing the light of day.

Later, the poison was slightly removed, and he got the waking time in the middle of the night every day, but most of the time he was still trapped in the darkness and could not extricate himself.

How long has it been since he seen so many whites?

He didn't know that there was no concept of time in the dark consciousness, and it was already a miracle that he had not been crazy for so many years.

But as this white stream of light continued to impact the black eggshell, Zhang Fengyun also walked out of the shackles of darkness.

This feeling of being able to move freely is really good.

There is no body, only consciousness, and the white light emits warmth. When it hits his soul, it will turn into a warm current like liquid, repairing the damage on his soul that has been corroded by toxicity over the years.

As soon as he thought, his soul floated outside the eggshell. Seeing the black eggshell being eaten away bit by bit, he felt indescribable comfort in his heart.

The black and white confrontation did not last long. Just when the black eggshell was about halfway through, the eggshell suddenly exploded.

However, from Zhang Fengyun's perspective, the half eggshell was just broken into countless casually, fleeing from the world ruled by white light.

Zhang Fengyun didn't know where the black substances had escaped, and even if he knew, it was useless. He couldn't do anything. Now he only felt aching all over his body.

...Wait, why can he feel sore all over his body?

After feeling the real sore feeling again, Zhang Fengyun suddenly had the urge to cry. It has been six years since he finally felt that he was still alive again.

Maybe he really found the miracle doctor to save himself. Zhang Fengyun thought so, but he didn't have much energy to study the reason for this matter carefully, because accompanied by the sore feeling, he also felt a lot of tiredness.

Let’s have a nap first. If something happens, you may know when you wake up.

It's been a long time, and I haven't had such a comfortable sleep.

I hope to see the real world when I wake up.

"He just kept sleeping?" An old man with white hair stood in front of Zhang Fengyun's bed, looked at Zhang Fengyun who was sleeping soundly on the bed, and asked with his beard.

The owl stood on the window frame, combing his wings with his mouth. When he heard the old man ask, he slowly said: "Yes, since I took the medicine three days ago, I have been asleep like this, and I haven't even reacted."

"He has been tortured by soul poison for many years. Now he needs to repair the damage on his soul. There are a lot of poisons left in his limbs and bones, and he also needs to be slowly recuperated."

A gentle voice came in from outside the door. As soon as the words were finished, a middle-aged man in a purple robe also walked in from outside the door.

"Master." Seeing the man coming in, the old man hurriedly saluted.

"Uncle Bing, there is no need to be polite. There is no outsider."

"Master." The owl also put away his wings and nodded slightly.

The man glared at the owl with a stern face: "Mi Owl, have your mission completed today?"

Mi Xiao shrank his bird's head, as if he had lost his memory: "Ah? Why am I here? Where is this?" Then he flew away with his wings.

The middle-aged man glanced at the flying owl and turned to the old man Bing, saying, "Uncle Bing, I can't stay here for too long. The laws of this world have begun to reject me. If he wakes up and wants to find me, you will tell him that I will not see guests, but the medicine I left behind will still be allowed to take normal. When it's okay, you can also let Mi Xiao contact him, but you have to watch Mi Xiao and don't let it say a word."

"Don't worry, Master, I know the importance of it." Old Man Bing nodded slightly: "But when will you come next time?"

"Let's wait for a while." The middle-aged man looked at Zhang Fengyun: "Next time I come here, I have to change to a persona with a weaker power."

"Then, what I said about practicing when I promised this young man's father?"

"I've been ready." The middle-aged man spread his right hand and a jade pendant appeared in his hand: "Take him the jade pendant and let him go to the valley in the south. Whatever he can understand is his own fortune. I'm leaving."

"I know, I'm sure, please walk slowly." Old Man Bing took the jade pendant and put it in his arms. After watching the middle-aged man's figure slowly fade and dissipate, he turned his attention to Zhang Fengyun.

"Why aren't you awake yet? Strange."
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