"Shh... keep your voice down, mother is meditating, you don't want to die!"
I walked out of the treehouse quietly and saw Xiaolu standing next to the stone bench with an aggrieved and innocent look on her face.
I walked over to her and asked her to calm down.
"Tell me, what's the matter?"
"The forest master's investiture ceremony is today, don't you go and see it?" She secretly glanced in the direction of the tree house and said to me excitedly.
"What did I think was going on? I already knew it."
"I thought Nalan only told me one person." She pouted and hummed softly.
"Okay, if you want to go, just leave quickly. When mother wakes up, you won't be able to go anywhere."
I took her hand and moved away from the tree house in an instant. In a blink of an eye, I had arrived at the small village next to the Depressed Forest, where people were coming and going, as if they were going to the market.
"Wow... the world is wonderful, there is warm sunshine everywhere!"
"Yes, yes. Look, your petals are getting more and more yellow due to the sun. Will they wither one day?"
"No way! Sunshine is very gentle and knows how to cherish beauty and beauty. If only Nalan could be like Sunshine..." Xiaolu's cheeks turned red, with a playful smile on her face.
I looked at the nymphomaniac look on her face and felt a little funny, so I joked with her:
"You still pity the fragrance and cherish the jade. I think your 'jade' will be burned soon!"
She glared at me fiercely, turned her head away, and continued dreaming.
"Yinluo, do you think Nalan can win the position of Forest Master today?"
I smiled: "Then do you think I can win the position of Forest Master?"
She suddenly turned around and stared at me, her eyes widening in disbelief.
"Yinluo! Are you kidding?"
"No, I'm very serious. In fact, I have always wanted to be like my mother, guarding the forest of depression so that all the creatures in the forest can live a carefree and happy life."
"Yinluo!" Xiaolu put his hand on my forehead, "I think you are the one who is going to burn out! Could it be that you are not going to watch the ceremony today, but are going to seize the position of forest leader?"
I looked at her seriously and nodded heavily.
"My mother has always taken care of me. If I become the forest owner, she won't be able to restrict everything I do all the time."
"Yinluo, Yinluo, you really don't know how blessed you are! No one in the forest has a mother, only you do, and she is highly respected in the forest. With such a mother in charge, who would dare to bully you?
Ah! I wish I could be taken care of by her as my daughter, but unfortunately I am not lucky enough."
"I think you are afraid that I will steal Nalan's limelight, right?"
Xiaolu hesitated to speak, thinking that I got most of the words right, so she pouted and lowered her head.
"Don't worry, I'm competing fairly with him. If he becomes the forest owner, I won't have any complaints. But you have to promise me that you will never tell your mother about this matter."
"I'm too lazy to care about you." Xiaolu walked forward quickly and ignored me.
I didn't feel angry about her attitude. How could I really mean the name of the Forest Master? I like living in the Yuyu Forest, playing mindlessly with Xiaolu all day long, and Nalan
They bring us weird gifts from time to time. The only thing I want to do is to protect this comfort and happiness silently. I have already lost the feeling of happiness once, and I don’t want to lose it a second time. Unfortunately, I don’t know that I
This departure actually pushed the wheel of my destiny to change drastically, making everything no longer exist, let alone the freedom or happiness I really wanted.
"Is this where it is?"
Xiaolu and I have bypassed the crowded crowds and turned into a remote path. Strangely, the noise of the market does not seem to affect this place at all, and there is such a depression hidden in the noise. The path looks very long, and the streets on both sides
The buildings are dilapidated, covered with cobwebs, and the ground is full of rotten leaves. Even naughty children will not come here to play, and people who want to get involved will not choose here. The holy land of the Depressed Forest is actually placed in such a place
Xiaolu and I were both a little confused.
"Probably." Xiaolu still pouted, as if she was still angry about what happened just now, but her tone could not hide her inner curiosity.
We kept walking along the path, and the air in front of us gradually became turbid, as if we had entered another space. The surrounding airflow was unusually calm, but also strange, but it seemed that every step we took caused the ground to stir.
There was a slight movement, as if someone could monitor our every move. I asked Xiaolu to become invisible with me and held our hands together. Because Xiaolu’s spiritual power was shallow, he would be easily discovered. Maybe it was inherited from his mother.
My spiritual power is among the best in the forest, and there are only a handful of people who can pass through my invisibility barrier.
We moved forward carefully, and the influence of a thatched hut appeared not far away. The closer we got, the clearer it became. When we got closer, we saw a dilapidated thatched hut standing in the middle of the open space. Could this be the legendary temple where the investiture ceremony was held?
We walked around the hut. There was no door or window, it was like a fastened frame, and the roof was intact.
I frowned and shook my head at Xiaolu, telling her that I didn't know how to get in.
Suddenly, I only felt a wave of airflow behind me, rolling up a small vortex, and then I felt a wave of heat on my shoulders. My heart skipped a beat, and I protected Xiaolu to one side behind me, slowly turning my head.
go.
"Nalan..." I shouted softly, finally breathing a sigh of relief.
Xiaolu was so excited that she let go of my hand, walked around to my side, and stood with the person who passed through my barrier. She was sandwiched between us, which allowed me to see this person's face from another angle.
Nalan Mo Sheng, a demon with one of the best spiritual powers in the forest, has a young and handsome face, which completely hides his sharp murderous intent. His crown is made of grass, and his hair is black and straight.
, hanging down to his waist, his face is angular and concave, his eyes are deep and cold, but for some reason, when I see him, I think of the man with a grass ring, even though Nalan's temperament has been washed away.
He has lost his childishness, but every move he makes seems to make me paint a beautiful picture of lush greenery in my mind.
"Aren't you afraid that others will find out if you are so reckless?"
"Nalan, we didn't just come to see you, you can definitely become the forest master." Xiaolu finished speaking in a confident tone, but suddenly turned her head to look at me, and then stopped talking.
"That's not necessarily true." Seeing her look, I became interested and deliberately poked her worry. She pouted, turned around, and I pulled her to the other side of me.
"Aren't you afraid of being discovered by others if you don't rely on me?"
Xiaolu brushed my hand away angrily, walked around to Nalan's side, and said angrily: "I don't believe you can win over Nalan."
I smiled, but saw Nalan's surprised eyes.
"Yinluo, could you..."
"Yes, I want to be the forest owner." When I met his eyes, I actually lost some confidence.
"Have you lifted the seal too?"
"Seal? What seal?"
"Everyone who participates in Director Lin's appointment ceremony must ask your mother to remove the seal from them."
I felt confused: "My mother never told me about the seal...what the hell is going on."
"It is said that the temple for the ordination ceremony is in another space. Everyone who participates in the ceremony must enter it and complete various tests before they can come out and take over as the forest leader. If the seal is not unlocked, even if all the mechanisms are broken, they will not be able to come out.
Come out of the temple..."
"What?" I suddenly felt that all the hopes I had held before had become elusive in an instant, and my heart dropped heavily. Do I still have to go back and ask my mother to lift the seal for me? Even if my mother agrees, it is too late.
.
Xiaolu looked happy: "It's okay now, Yinluo, just be your 'princess'! Don't think about being a forest master."
"In other words, if you enter the temple without lifting the seal, you will be trapped there forever..."
"Yeah." Nalan nodded.
I was speechless for a moment, and the feeling of loss in my heart was so overwhelming that I wanted to crack the ground and lock myself up.
"Forget it." I was completely frustrated, but there was nothing I could do. Maybe I shouldn't regard my mother's care for me as a constraint. After all, she also said that everything she did was for my own good.
"However, if you really want to see the investiture ceremony, you can follow me into the temple with the magic of divine movement, wait for the ceremony to end, and then recall the soul."
I smiled bitterly and said, "So what? See how others become forest masters, but you can only stay on the outside?"
"Nalan, I'm going! I'm going!" Compared to my depression, Xiaolu was still full of interest.
"Silly girl, you can't go there. With your spiritual power, it seems like you can't even perform magic, right?"
Nalan touched Xiaolu's head, and Xiaolu lowered his head angrily, but immediately raised his head with hope, leaned close to me, and looked straight at me.
"Yinluo——" She smiled flatteringly, with seemingly sincere regret and innocence, "It was my fault just now, I shouldn't be angry with you. Why don't you and Nalan go in,
When you get out, tell me everything you saw, okay?"
She shook my arm and kept acting coquettishly: "Yinluo, just go. The appointment ceremony only happens once every ten years. It would be a pity if you miss it. Go, go..."
Although my heart was filled with disappointment, I had no choice but to give in when I saw her acting dishonestly.
"Okay, I'll go, but you promised me to keep this matter a secret."
"Absolutely no problem!" She immediately beamed.
"Then you go back and wait for us..." For some reason, my heart skipped a beat when the word "we" was used, and I secretly glanced at Nalan next to me.
"Well!" Xiaolu turned to Nalan again, "When you become the forest master, I will definitely hold a celebration banquet for you in Youyou Valley!"
"Silly girl, it's not a war, why are you celebrating?" Nalan touched her head again, and Xiaolu lowered her head shyly.
"Then I'll see you go in before leaving."
"Then take Yinluo's body away, otherwise it will be bad if others see it."