Overshadowing the Sky: Empress Proud of the World

Chapter 1 Prologue
A bean-sized flame jumped on the oil lamp, and the faint light barely illuminated the handsome face of the young man.

With the help of the weak light, he carefully wiped a grimace mask in his hand.There was also a ring on the table, the smooth surface reflected the jumping firelight, and it was obviously cleaned meticulously.

"Brother... cold..."

The little girl's weak voice came from the side of the house, and the boy stopped what he was doing and stood up.

"Nannah kicked off the quilt again, did she have a nightmare?" The boy bent down to pick up the quilt, covering the little girl lying on the bed, and said lovingly.

"Hey, no," the little girl on the bed co-operated with the young man to cover herself tightly, "Ninny dreamed that it was time to play with her brother during the day, and accidentally..."

The boy patted the little girl's head, "It's very late, my daughter should go to bed quickly, otherwise we won't be able to collect herbs together tomorrow."

"Well, my daughter will sleep now."

The boy tidied up the little girl's patched quilt, looked around, and under the dim light of the oil lamp, he could see that there were no valuable objects in the room.

In a few months, it will be the day for the selection of the immortal sect in the records.If she is selected this time... she will be able to live a carefree life for her sister.

The boy checked the little girl's quilt again. At this time, the little girl had fallen asleep and was pouting sweetly.

Did you dream about something delicious?The boy thought.He blew out the oil lamp and fell into a deep sleep.

……

A long time ago, the people were born in the early days.Be proud and self-sufficient, hold Pu Hanzhen.

In such a wilderness where there are many races and fierce beasts, there is such a small village composed of mortals.Work at sunrise and rest at sunset.

Some people speculate that an unimaginable and amazing force is hidden behind this small village, secretly sheltering the people in the village.However, because there is no substantive evidence, this statement eventually became an after-dinner talk among the villagers.

But for the villagers, there is only one thing that matters.That is the selection of the immortal gate recorded in the village annals.

Regardless of men, women or children in the village, they all know that there are "immortals" in this world.Not only can they fly to the sky and escape from the ground, but when facing the fierce beasts that the villagers can only avoid, the immortals can tear each other apart with just a few casual strikes.

In the dangerous wilderness, this kind of strength is undoubtedly desirable.However, according to the village records, the last time someone from the Immortal Sect was selected was a hundred years ago.

According to the village chronicle, before the selection of the fairy gate, a white bird will land at the gate of the village chief's house.This bird speaks out that it will ask the village chief to order young men and women under [-] in the village to eat only grass and trees in the next few months, otherwise they will lose their qualifications.

There are also records of the selection method of the fairy gate. Young men and women need to cut their wrists and sprinkle blood on a stone. If the stone glows, they will be taken away by the immortal.

What will happen to those who are taken away, the record is interrupted here.

There is also a record after that, one of the children who was taken away returned to the village in the name of "should fulfill filial piety", and then left the village with his parents. As for where they went, only the recorder remains Based on speculation, there is no way to verify it.

However, most of the villagers think that they have become the omnipotent immortals in their eyes.

Just a few days ago, a pure white bird once again broke the century-old peaceful life in the village.

The village chief hurriedly summoned the people in the village, and the boy led the little girl among them.They discovered that it was actually a jade bird made of flawless precious jade, so the whole body shone with pure white luster.

Consistent with the records, the jade bird once again asked the young men and women to fast for the next few months, and then flew away by itself.

On the way home, the little girl talked to the boy one by one.

"Brother, that bird is so beautiful!"

"When my elder brother becomes a fairy, I will also make a bird like that for my daughter."

"Hmm... If my brother becomes a fairy, will he lose his daughter?"

"My brother is going to become a fairy with my daughter."

"Okay, my daughter is going to become a fairy too, hee hee."

At night, everything is silent.A bright moon hangs high in the sky, casting cold moonlight on the earth.

For ordinary people in mountain villages, night means the end of a day's hard work and a time to recuperate.

But for the beings in this world who know how to practice, exhaling energy to the bright moon to cultivate themselves is a necessary part every night.

In the mountains and forests not far from the village, an old monkey sat on the ground, his eyes flickering as he opened and closed, wisps of energy turned into white mist and lingered around him as he puffed and puffed.

If you look closely, you will find a squirrel squatting on its shoulder.The squirrel, like its owner, clasped its hands together, closed its eyes and exhaled.

Although this squirrel has a fluffy body and a big fluffy tail, anyone can feel that this squirrel is not an existence to be messed with by the pulse revealed by its breath.

In the dark night sky, a purple light flashed across.The old monkey opened his eyes instantly, then stepped on a strange footwork and disappeared in place.

"Huh, although the Nine Secrets' Traveling Secrets is not complete, it also allows you to take advantage of a lot."

A cold snort came from the air, and Zimang transformed into a humanoid creature with dragon horns.It looked around sharply, frightening some weak spirits and monsters so that they didn't dare to take a breath.

The humanoid creature with dragon horns on its head ignored it, turned into a [-]-meter-long purple dragon and flew away.

In this wild land, strength is the first rule for the survival of all things. Every creature must constantly become stronger in order to survive in this cruel environment.

In the dead of night, the little girl fell asleep sweetly.The chirping of insects and the sound of the little girl's breathing mixed in the night, composing a ray of tenderness that still exists in the cruel wilderness.

……

The next day, the morning light was faint.

A faint mist enveloped the entire village, and people in the village could already be seen indistinctly.

For mortals living on this land, getting up to work in the morning, plowing and hunting is also a way of cultivation that belongs to them.

In an ordinary thatched hut in the corner of the village.

"Ninny, get up and eat." The boy's gentle voice woke up the little girl from her sleep. While controlling the heat on the stove, he stirred the porridge in the pot with a spoon.

This morning, as usual, he added medicinal materials to the porridge that he went out with his sister a few days ago.Although most of them are sold to make ends meet, there will still be a lot left over.

The little girl opened her eyes and smelled the mixed aroma of herbs and porridge in the air, her nose twitched.

"It smells so good. My brother is cooking porridge for my daughter again!" She sat up, tidied the bed, carefully folded her quilt, put on her clothes, tied her shofar braids not very skillfully, and bouncing around. Dadi came to the side of the boy, looking expectantly at the bubbling porridge in the pot.

It is said to be porridge, but in fact most of it is herbs and edible tubers, and a few rice grains.However, the herbs in the pot were faintly shining with sunlight, which made the ordinary porridge exude a heart-warming fragrance.

These are just the herbs that two children picked casually, which is enough to prove the extraordinaryness of this land.

Since Nannan can remember, she has lived with her brother in this small mountain village.

As for the impression of the parents, I only heard from people in the village that their father brought the two siblings to the village alone.Their father was very strong and often helped the villagers do some heavy work that ordinary people could not bear.However, an accident occurred while hunting, leaving only the two brothers and sisters.

Even the elders in the village don't know about their mother.

So in all the memories of Nannan, her brother is her only family member.

The boy looked at the little girl's thick braids with a half-smile, rubbed her rosy face, squatted down, and adjusted the braids for the little girl while speaking.

"Didn't I tell Nannan that you should tie your hair like this first, and then..." Before the boy finished speaking, he was interrupted by the clear voice of the little girl.

"Do it again! Hehe, Nannan actually remembered it, but I just want my brother to tie her up again."

The boy smiled, and skillfully tied up the little girl's shofar braids, then tidied up her clothes, feeling a faint pain in his heart as he touched the rough fabric.

He squatted down, held the little girl's cheek, and said:

"I'll go pick herbs again today, and my brother will take you to the nearby Yancheng to buy new clothes, okay?"

The little girl's big eyes sparkled when she heard the words, but she shook her head immediately: "No, no, brother, let's buy more food. My daughter likes the food my brother cooks very much. The clothes are a bit old, but they can be worn again, so there is no need to change them. .”

Listening to his sister's sensible words, the boy's heart became more and more sour.In the past few years, they have made a living by collecting herbs from the mountains, and then sold them to businessmen in the village who came to buy them regularly.It is said that they will be sold to monks, or "immortals" as people in the village often refer to them.

Although they are taken care of by the villagers, their herbs are given priority every time, but because they are too young, most of the herbs they pick do not meet the requirements of monks and belong to ordinary herbs, so their income is not enough to survive. need.

The same is true for other people in the village. As a mortal with no magic power, every time he goes out is a gamble. It's okay to encounter ordinary beasts, and there may be a way out if he runs away.

If you meet a foreign race who knows how to practice, even a small earthworm can kill someone in an instant.

However, the surroundings of the village are relatively safe, but most of those rare fairy grasses live in dangerous places, and most of them are guarded by strange beasts.If you want to get it, you have to pay the price of your life at every turn.

So even if they are taken care of by the villagers, the boy and the little girl can still only live such a poor life.

It's just—it's pretty good to not lose your life.

The boy took out the bowl and filled a large bowl of porridge for the daughter.

"Brother doesn't need to give Nannan so much, Nannan is not hungry." The little girl quickly shook her head when she realized that the boy had almost given most of the rice to herself.

The boy refused to let him go, and said: "My daughter wants to grow her body, so it's okay to eat a little more, the rest of my brother can't eat it."

Years of living in poverty has made her well-behaved and sensible. She can easily see that her brother is coaxing her again, but she knows that if she does not take it like before, her brother will follow her. Everyone will be hungry together.

"Okay, I got it." The little girl came to the table with the bowl in her arms, and after drinking all the porridge, she burped in satisfaction. The pond was cleaned.

After the little girl came back, the boy picked up the bronze ring that had been cleaned last night and handed it to the little girl.

Because he didn't have enough money, the teenager couldn't buy interesting toys and beautiful accessories for his sister.So he made a small ring with the bronze fragments left by the villagers. After careful polishing, the surface can also reflect the hazy scenery.

The little girl regarded it as a treasure, and she had to wear it on her hand even when she was sleeping. Later, the boy persuaded her for a long time, probably because she was really afraid that she would swallow it after going to sleep, so the little girl reluctantly agreed to take off the ring every night, but It will be worn on the hand the first time the next day.

The teenager will wipe it carefully every night.In addition, he also used the extra bronze sheet to create a grimace mask for himself, which seems to be crying but not crying, smiling but not smiling.

But when I used this mask to scare my sister for the first time, it scared my sister to tears, and it took me a long time to coax her.

It wasn't until a long time later that my sister gradually accepted that my brother played hide-and-seek with her with this grimace mask.

No matter how long it has passed, even if the sea has changed, the bronze ring and the grimace mask are the only sustenance in all the memories of the little girl and the boy.

At this time, the people in the village were already active.The woodcutters are preparing to dry yesterday's firewood; the hunters are stretching their muscles and bones, checking the bows, arrows, and spears that they care about as treasures; that field.

"Ninny, let's go."

"Hmm! We must pick a lot of herbs today."

Accompanied by the brisk pace of the two people, two lively figures, one big and one small, gradually faded away in the morning light shrouded in mist.

　Digging!I like the Ruthless Emperor very much, and I want to write down the process of the Ruthless Emperor from childhood to the world!Thank you for your support, I will listen to any suggestions!
　　This book is based on Zhetian's worldview, but those who haven't read Zhetian's book friends don't have to worry, the worldview is gradually unfolded from the perspective of the heroine!

　　
　
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