Strange Worlds: The Sequence

  Chapter 153 Notes

  In a woman's boudoir, there is a notebook on the desk.

   A gust of wind blew by, and the notes were also opened.

First page:

  My name is Ruan Jibai.

  My mother is called Ruan Xiuyuan, and she is the owner of Fengyuan Pavilion, and my father is the owner of Fengyuan Pavilion.

   As for my dad's name...

I have no idea.

  My father never talks to me, and every time he looks at me with terrifying eyes, as if he wants to eat me alive, I don't like him very much.

  I went to ask my mother and my aunt, but they didn't tell me anything, but smiled and changed the topic away.

really weird.

   Oh yes, I am twelve years old.

  …

The second page:

  Today was really exciting. I sneaked down the mountain without telling my mother, and made a friend, her name is A Hua, and we two had a great time.

   But I'm very surprised, it seems that Ah Hua's father is very kind to her. Don't all fathers hate their daughters?

  With experience, I often ran down the mountain to find Ahua to play. During this period, I finally understood that my father and mother are my closest relatives and the people who love me the most.

   Knowing this, I was very depressed, why does my dad hate me so much?

  After I returned to the mountain gate, I ran to my mother and asked her about it. My mother looked a little surprised. She just told me that my father is only angry now, and it will stop after a while.

angry?

  I don't believe it, how could someone give birth for more than ten years as soon as they get angry.

  But my mother is very busy, and the people from Qianlongshan came to make trouble again, so I had to go back by myself first.

  When I went back to my room, I happened to see my dad. He stared at me coldly, as if he was looking at a stranger.

  I was so scared that I trembled all over, and ran back to my room.

  Recalling that A Hua's father doted on A Hua so much, and let A Hua sit on his neck, leading her around in circles.

  I'm so envious.

  …

The third page:

   It’s really boring to stay in the mountain gate. These days, I plan to sneak down the mountain to play again.

   Finally avoided the guards and slipped down the mountain, only to find that Ahua's family had disappeared.

  I heard from the neighbors in the neighborhood that their family went to relatives, and they moved away with their family and children earlier, and they left Weiyang County for a while.

  I didn’t believe it in my heart, because Ah Hua told me that his parents were all refugees from the north, and all relatives and friends died in the war. Where would there be relatives to go to?

  I wanted to ask more questions, but when those people saw me, they ran away trembling like they were seeing a plague god.

  I feel sad, and I am alone again, so I just need to go back to the mountain gate first.

  Unfortunately, I happened to be bumped into by my mother on the way home, she dragged me by the ear and dragged me back to Fengyuan Pavilion, scolding me viciously.

   This is how I grew up.

  Mother scolded me for the first time.

   She cried and told me that I would not be allowed to sneak down the mountain without her consent in the future.

  I had no choice but to agree to her request.

  Because in such a big Fengyuan Pavilion, I can only feel that my mother really loves me.

  …

  Fourth page:

  Spring goes and autumn comes, and in a blink of an eye I am already thirteen years old.

  I don't know when it started, but my mother's health became worse and worse. She was already weak and sickly, and she had to drink medicine every day. Even in summer, she had to light a fire in the room.

  But now she is so weak that she has to rely on a maid to support her when she walks.

  I was worried about my mother, and I stayed with her every day, but she drove me back. I felt helpless, so I had to let her take care of herself.

  …

  The fifth page:

  I love reading books and playing the flute very much. I just fiddle with these two things all day long. Under the guidance of my aunt, I started [Music Sequence] and became a warrior.

  My aunt told me that warriors have three realms: interior, exterior, and spirit

  She also told me mysteriously that there are three great realms above the divine will, but these are all legendary things.

   Even Zhang Tianshi, the second "Taiji Taoist" on the Jingtian list, has only reached the fifth great realm.

   I quickly asked curiously, what about the top of the Jingtian list?

  Auntie said that there used to be someone in that position, but except for the few martial arts masters on the Jingtian list, no one knew his name, and no one knew whether he was dead or not. Even Tianji Pavilion only knew a little bit.

   But everyone knows that at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, when fire fell from the sky, it was this master who could not see the dragon's head and tail.

  I listened with gusto, and for the first time came into contact with the concept of "Jianghu".

  At the same time, I also know that the world is so vast, not just a few attics, a few martial arts fields are so monotonous.

   It seems that from this period of time, the seeds of longing for freedom were planted in my heart.

  I want to go and see the flowers blooming outside, people coming and going, fresh clothes and angry horses, bustling like brocade.

  …

  Page 6:

  I am fourteen years old this year. On the day of my birthday, I was also successfully promoted to location, becoming the youngest location warrior in the sect.

  My aunt told me that I am the most talented disciple in Fengyuan Pavilion, which made me very happy. I excitedly went to talk to my mother, but in exchange for her cold words.

   "You are not allowed to practice martial arts in the future."

  I didn't understand it very much, so I decided to agree to my mother's words first, and then practice martial arts secretly by myself.

  Because I found that after I started practicing martial arts, my face became more and more beautiful.

  …

  Page 7:

  I finally know why, my mother won't let me practice martial arts.

   It’s been a while since I broke through to the location. On the night when I just opened my five senses, my heart started beating crazily, as if it was going to hit my chest directly, making me faint.

  When I woke up again, my mother was sitting on the head of my bed.

  She caressed my face distressedly, angrily asked me if I practiced martial arts secretly by myself.

  I felt ashamed, so I had no choice but to admit it.

  Later, my aunt also came in. In front of me, my mother got up and slapped my aunt with such force that the right side of my aunt's face was swollen.

  Auntie didn't speak, just looked at Mother with a sneer.

  I don't know what happened behind, I only heard two people arguing violently from outside the door.

  From then on, I didn't touch martial arts anymore, but just devoted myself to the study of ancient books. There are many ancient books in the school that no one has read for a long time, and there are many anecdotes recorded in them, which I am very interested in.

  …

  Page 8:

  The feeling of heart palpitations came again, this time the pain was more intense than before, the heartbeat was fast and slow, and the suffocation even made me think I was going to die.

  I passed out again from the pain, but fortunately my mother didn't find out this time.

  The next day, when I went out to eat, I was shocked to find that I could actually hear other people's voices!

  The maid Bai Zhi said that she likes the guard Qi Dong, but I haven't realized it yet. I thought that Bai Zhi was so bold today, but when I looked closely, I found that Bai Zhi was eating seriously and didn't say anything.

  So what I heard just now...

   is her voice!

  I was a little excited, but I didn't dare to tell others. I listened to everyone's voice with curiosity.

  Bai Zhi likes Qi Dong, but Qi Dong likes another maid, Bai Hua.

  The cook, Aunt Tang, went so far as to fill her own pocket, and secretly sent back part of the money used to buy vegetables in the sect.

  After I finished eating, I excitedly went to see my mother, wanting to see what she was thinking.

   In the end, I met my dad first.

  【Bitch, why aren’t you dead yet. 】

  My body suddenly became cold.

  I told myself repeatedly in my heart, this is my father.

   is my father...

   I didn't know what was going on, so I walked to my mother's room in a daze.

  【What's wrong with Jibai, is it because of heart palpitations again? 】

  Niangqin's thoughts of concern pulled me back from the confusion. I looked at her and forced a smile.

  After I left my mother, I studied it for many days, and found that this ability can only be used in people who are in the same realm or who are related to me by blood.

  …

  Page Nine:

  This ability to read minds, I named it the characteristic "Listen to the Truth", because the legendary beast of Listening to the Truth has the ability to penetrate the thoughts of others.

   Fortunately, I have read enough books, and I also understand that my ability is a natural characteristic, and it belongs to the ability that can't be met.

  I am very happy in my heart, but also a little sad.

  I learned a lot through the feature "Listening Truth", and also discovered a lot of cruel reality.

  It turned out that my father wished that I would die sooner, my mother would die sooner, and that Fengyuan Pavilion would be destroyed sooner.

  It turned out that my aunt had always had ulterior motives for her, and wanted to force her mother to do something by letting her practice martial arts and causing a heart attack.

  It turns out that my mother's body is now too weak to get out of bed. Every time I see myself, I take medicine in advance to overdraw my potential to maintain the normality in front of me.

  The cruelty of reality.

  It was so heavy that I couldn't breathe.

  …

  Page 10:

  Through the characteristic "Listening Truth", I learned from my aunt that there is an unknown secret room in the mountain gate, which contains classics that only the pavilion owner can view.

  After I learned the news, I stayed near the attic where my mother lived for almost half a month before I found out the location of the secret room.

   Taking advantage of the dead of night, I sneaked into that secret room, read the classics in it, and learned the truth of everything.

   Their Fengyuan Pavilion was originally the Dragon and Phoenix Gate.

  Ruan Wen, the ancestor of Fengyuan Pavilion, used to be the head of the Fengmen of Longfengmen. Because of his mediocre appearance, he gradually fell out of favor with the head of Longmen, and the latter married a new love.

  Actually, what outsiders don’t know is that the two sect masters of Longfeng Sect are apparently a husband and wife, but the two sect masters in the past basically played their own way, just for a name.

  Because of the Fengmen Ruan family's lineage, and because of their blood, the Ruan family has never been good-looking.

  But Ruan Wen and the head of Longmen Sect of that generation were childhood sweethearts since childhood, and later became a real husband and wife, but was betrayed by her husband, and in a rage she took Fengmen to leave Longfengmen directly and formed Fengyuan Pavilion independently.

  Although it is over at this time, the knot in her heart has been tied since then. She believes that her tragic fate is because of her mediocre face, so Ruan Wen spent the rest of her life and finally found a way to make herself beautiful.

  But before she had time to try, she fell because of her own martial arts obsession.

  However, this martial art has been passed down, and gradually evolved into the martial arts majored in Fengyuan Pavilion.

   No woman can refuse the opportunity to become beautiful, especially for the daughters of the Ruan family who are already ugly.

  Because the original Fengmen skills were missing the link of the Dragon Gate, they couldn't do double cultivation, and couldn't cultivate to perfection at all, so they were gradually eliminated by Fengyuan Pavilion.

  But this practice has a fatal sequelae.

   That is short-lived.

  …

  Eleventh page:

  It was almost dawn, so I could only sneak back to my room with a few classics that I hadn't finished reading.

  Now my mother is seriously ill and is bedridden, and only my mother knows the location of the secret room, so I am not worried that this matter will be discovered.

  The martial art created by Ruan Wen's ancestors is called "The Sutra of Beauty's Poor Life". A woman who practices this martial art will gradually become as beautiful as a fairy.

   Also benefited from this, the masters of each generation of our Fengyuan Pavilion Ruan family after Ruan Wen's ancestors are almost always among the top ten in the national beauty list, which arouses the enthusiastic pursuit of knights in the world.

   But being beautiful comes at a price.

  The shortest is more than ten years old, and the longest is in the late twenties. Women who practice "The Sutra of Beauty and Life" will start to have heart palpitations, and then their limbs will gradually become weak until they are paralyzed, and finally their souls will return to the west.

   No one can live past forty.

   Later, Fengyuan Pavilion had a generation of pavilion masters, Tianzong Wizards, who combined the evil martial arts "Transferring Flowers and Connecting Trees Kung Fu" with the sacrifice technique in "Book of Sacrifice".

I recruited a husband-in-law for myself through martial arts competitions, grafted my own consciousness onto him, and after three years of sacrifice, at the cost of his body sacrifice, the cost of practicing the "Beautiful Beauty Sutra" was transferred to the "husband-in-law" "'s body, and then grafted the consciousness back to his own body.

  As for the "husband-in-law", the consciousness had already dissipated when the body was occupied, and the body was not wasted, but was used as a sacrifice in exchange for his own well-being.

  The reason for recruiting a husband and son-in-law is because the premise of performing "Transferring Flowers and Connecting Trees" is that the two must have love for each other in their hearts.

   Moreover, there are certain requirements for the strength of the husband-in-law, and the strength of the two must be at the same level.

   There is no requirement for this love to last forever, as long as it has existed, and at least one person still loves each other deeply when performing "Transferring Flowers and Connecting Trees".

  Seeing this, my heart gradually sank.

  No wonder I remember that I was not good-looking when I was a child, but after practicing martial arts, I became more and more beautiful.

   It's no wonder that father has such deep hatred for mother, for himself, and for Fengyuan Pavilion.

   It is very likely that he discovered something, or he already understood the truth about Fengyuan Pavilion's martial arts competition to recruit relatives.

  So now my mother is paralyzed all over her body. If she doesn't perform the "Transferring Flowers and Connecting Trees Kung Fu" to divert her consciousness, and immediately sacrifices her father, she will really die in the hospital bed.

   One side is mother, the other side is father.

  Maybe I resented why my father hated me so much before, but after I understood the truth, I realized that the hatred for my father had dissipated without a trace in my heart.

   Compare your heart with your heart.

  If you bring me into father's position, I will also resent the person who ruined his life.

  What should I do now?

  (end of this chapter)