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Chapter III Whirlpool Dead Marks

The sun was setting in the west side of the Little Village. The birds were living in groups, and the pines were moving in waves. From time to time, a long beast cry could be heard in the Demon Beast Forest. It was quiet and peaceful.

"Grandma, I'm back!" Stepping on Dusk's tail, Long Yu changed his calm tone from outside Yongan City and became a bit more playful and lively.

An old woman with grey hair at her temples stood under a cloud tree in the middle of the simple wooden pile. She looked outside until she saw a set of simple and clean green clothes. She let out a long sigh of relief. "I'm back. Your grandfather is about to wake up. Grandmother has prepared food. Go wash her hands …" The old woman was none other than Long Yu's grandmother, Jia Lianzhu.

Nodding his head, Long Yu placed the bulging cloth bag at his waist onto the stone table and hurriedly helped his grandmother up …

"Grandmother, I'll go to Yongan City tomorrow to buy the Nine-Twisted Grass." Grandmother, I'll go to Yongan City to buy the Nine-Twisted Grass. After arranging the tableware neatly, Long Yu turned around and entered the room. He gently pushed an old man out. The afterglow of the dusk was very faint, but it made Long Yu feel a little more mature.

Even though the old man's face was haggard and extremely thin, a faint dignified aura still seeped out from between his tightly shut eyes. He was Long Yu's grandfather, Long Taichuan. From the moment Long Yu had become sensible, he'd known that his grandfather had a strange illness that caused him to be in a coma all day long, and that he would wake up when the sun set on the mountain that day. However, this state didn't last long; it only lasted for two hours. Two hours later, he fell back into a deep slumber. As the cycle continued, ten years of time silently passed.

Except for the first eight years, the house in front of him was maintained by his grandmother Jia Lianzhu. Over the next two years, behind every blade of grass in this small courtyard, there was a tender shadow.

As he watched, the sun finally set beneath the western mountains. The old man in the seat slowly opened his eyes …

Long Yu faced his grandfather's gaze and sat upright, as if facing a great enemy. He didn't even dare to breathe loudly!

Long Taichuan glanced at Long Yu, and a slightly low, hoarse voice slowly spoke, "A sixty year old with swollen feet and sore feet, suddenly eating pork, is uneasy. The doctor gave the medicine, and the medicine healed the patient slightly. When out of stroke, sweat, swollen head, purplish black, more sleep, ear lobes have bubbly small sores, and there is yellow juice overflow, how should be solved? "

"With the little Life Continuing Soup, you can heal it by eating it alive along with Qiang." After pondering for a moment, Long Yu followed and spoke. Small Life Continuing Decoction: Ginseng, Ginger, Jujube, Ginger and Schisandra Decoction.

"Confucianism preaches' knowing what cannot be done ', while the Taoists preach that' the saints do nothing 'and' the saints do nothing ', which is the right and which is the wrong?"

… ….

Grandma sat at the side, calmly watching the two of them. This kind of scene played out every night! Strangely, there was not a single decent book in the courtyard. The information was passed down through mouth to mouth, and Long Taichuan was like a vast ocean, containing an endless amount of knowledge.

Nodding his head slightly, Long Taichuan coughed twice, raised his arm, and pointed to the three piles of food on the table. Even though he had not eaten for a day, his tone was still calm, "If the army is surrounded by three hundred thousand, three million, three million troops will descend.

"Send one hundred thousand soldiers to feign an attack to the southwest and mobilize both forces. The remaining two hundred thousand soldiers will fight off the eastern troops and break through the enemy's encirclement with their arrows, tearing a hole in the ground to escape." Long Yu didn't seem to hear Long Taichuan's question and continued to respond.

Long Yu's response made a rare look of gratification flash across Long Taichuan's haggard face. As he asked, he could tell that Long Taichuan had set up a trap, waiting for his grandson to get in. With the combination of these three sides, if their morale was low, they would be able to flee across the river. Their pursuers would arrive at the same time, but their strength would be greatly reduced.

The only thing that he did not expect was that from Long Tai Chuan's understanding, with Long Yu's intelligence, he was satisfied that the river water was a trap. After that, he would probably just face it head on and fight to the death. Unexpectedly, he would use a hundred thousand as bait to exchange for the remaining two hundred thousand officers to survive.

Not bad, not bad.

"Finally, I want to ask you, what is a demon beast?" This question seemed to hang over Long Taichuan for a long time, this time he was finally able to ask. His grandmother, who was sitting at the side, had also tensed up. The atmosphere was as heavy as the night, and there was a hint of chilliness in it.

Long Taichuan and Long Yu's expressions swept away the calmness on Long Yu's face. They stood up and spoke with firm tones, "Demons. It was supposed to be a part of the five elements, a part of the five events. Even though the news had spread like wildfire, it was still a disaster! We can't let them stay! "

"Alright!" With a loud shout, Long Tai Chuan's palm firmly hit the wooden table. Blue veins popped out on his withered joints, and his mood fluctuated, as if he had great hatred towards the demon race. However, he obviously didn't hear what the young man standing beside him had to say. "Human disaster is greater than demonic disaster!"

"Old granny, go and take out that jug of wine. I want to have a good drink with Yu'er today …" Long Taichuan was more excited than he ever was.

Jia Lianzhu was slightly hesitant as she asked, "Your illness?"

"Sigh, it's nothing, it's been ten years, this cup of wine won't kill me."

Long Yu's eyes were somewhat blurry. With his clear mind, how could he not understand the meaning behind this cup of wine? It had been five years, starting from the evening five years ago, two hours after the sun had set each day. On this table, his emotions had gone from his initial fear and fear to his present peace of mind.

He believed that for the past five years, perhaps the only thing Long Tai Chuan could do was lie on the bed, but after he taught all the things he knew to Long Yu … What could his grandfather, who had once again fallen into darkness, do?

Being trapped in the dark wasn't something to be afraid of, because there was still hope in his heart, and there was still something to be done. But when the darkness once again engulfed Long Taichuan, what else did he have, helplessness, blankness, waiting for the years to pass by so that he could silently grab onto the throat of life?

There was a small aroma in the two coarse wine cups. The wine was not good, and the wine cups were also bad. However, the fragrance of this wine cup made Long Yu unable to taste all of it for the rest of his life.

After drinking a cup of wine, the normally tough and resolute Long Tai Chuan's eyes lit up with a sparkling and translucent luster. Jia Lian Zhu who was at the side also secretly wiped the corner of her eyes with the corner of her clothes. Right at this moment, Long Tai Chuan who was sitting in the back seat suddenly struggled to stand up, and shouted loudly, "Long Yu!"

Long Yu stood up!

"Remember this: the Long family does not belong to the Little Western Village, nor to the Shi family. The Long family is the family whose name is second only to the Mu family, so today I will tell you the history of the Long family. I will only say it once, if you miss a word, I will not let you off!"

… ….

The Long family, this was a question that had been plaguing Long Yu's mind for several years. In the entire Mirror Continent, the Long family was the only family with the surname! It wasn't that Long Yu didn't know about the Mu Estate's Long family, it was that he didn't dare to think about it. If they were truly people from the Mu Manor, then why did they have the audacity to display their strength so openly in the Shi Manor? Wasn't they afraid of attracting killing intent by giving him the name of a dragon? In the past three years, the conflict between the Mu Manor and the Stone Manor had become more and more intense. It wouldn't be long before a battle broke out!

Was it on purpose to attract eyes and ears to wait for the arrival of the Mu Clan's Long Clan? If that was true, then why was it that even after ten years had passed, there was still no news of him! As the war raged on, even Yongan City was in a state of panic. Talking had changed the color of the tiger, not to mention leaving the Stone Manor and entering the borders of the Mu Manor …

The moon was bright and the stars were dim. The dishes were still untouched as the dishes on the table slowly turned cold...

Long Taichuan talked for an unknown amount of time, before his tone slowly relaxed. His murky eyes lit up, "Do you know why I have never allowed you to practice martial arts? The time had not come! The Long family's cultivation technique is as vast as a sea of smoke. I didn't want you to practice the inferior cultivation method on the market, but my grandfather didn't think that you would have to wait ten years. From today onwards, you can walk your own path … " Saying that, Long Tai Chuan's tone became more and more subtle, he fell down on the chair, and slowly closed his eyes.

Two hours passed by without anyone noticing!

Touching the jade pendant on his neck, Long Yu fell into a rare state of deep thought. Martial dao was such an extravagant word, Long Yu didn't even dare to think about it.

On the Spirit Mirror Continent, the martial dao realm is separated by the state of the Mirror World. A normal person's Dantian was a stone mirror. After reaching twelve years of age, one could enter this realm. Afterwards, by comprehending nature, one could absorb the light from heaven and earth and soften the stone mirror. This was also the reason why the Academy on the Spirit Mirror Continent was so popular. Within the Academy, there was always a lecturer lecturing on the Dao of nature, guiding the stone mirror user to comprehend the Dao …

When a martial artist freezes water and their dantian's mirror appears as water, it is an important watershed. At this time, a martial artist would no longer call themselves a Mirror Master, but rather a Pattern Master …

Of course, all of the above mentioned were only the size of a water mark, and there was an essential difference between the runes. At the beginning of its existence, the stone mirror had been branded with a unique set of patterns. There were a total of five types of patterns: Horizontal Waves, Fish Scale Marks, Spiral Marks, Scroll Marks, and Vortex Marks.

The tattoo with horizontal ripples had abundant tattoos and the power to attack en masse; the tattoo with spirals had shocking explosive power; the tattoo with fish scales had a superior ability to defend against attacks; and the tattoo with rolling patterns had endless tattoos and was extremely good in battling for long periods of time!

As for the last line, the vortex pattern, it was denounced by tens of thousands of people, and was called the 'Death Mark'! Those with the patterns would only sink deeper into the center of their dantian, even if they were gifted in absorbing the light from heaven and earth and couldn't release the power. They would be no different from trash …

"Alright, stop thinking about it. Let's eat..." Even now, Jia Lianzhu was still blaming Long Taichuan for telling Long Yu so much at once. Couldn't he take it a bit longer and recount it bit by bit?

Nodding his head, Zhang Xuan started off with a simple meal. Under the dim light, he started writing furiously.

He blew out the lamp and lay down in a small room to the east of the courtyard.

Long Taichuan had restrained Long Yu time and time again, not allowing him to touch the martial way. In the past few years, he had gone around the school writing essays and attended many lessons. He also had his own understanding of the mirror realm and was restless. However, when all the shackles on his body were removed and he was finally untied, Long Yu didn't know where to start.

He rubbed the jade pendant in his hand, which had been carefully scrutinized countless times. It was slightly cool and brought a refreshing temperature to it. The material was exquisite, round and shiny. Long Yu knew that this jade pendant was not ordinary, but this was the only reason, its origin and source. After asking his grandma a few times, he would naturally find out about it.

He shook his head helplessly. Under the moonlight, a word would appear on the back of the jade: 'Sky'. It was hazy and seemed to have no other novelty.

Under the moonlight, the jade pendant was still the same, without any changes. He might as well just collapse onto the bed as he still had work to do tomorrow. Besides the Nine Mourning Grass, his grandfather's illness was the last, and also the most important, Mysterious Sun Grass!

Of course, he would also have to go to the academy tomorrow to meet that Ma Wencai...