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CBGC - ch77.1
🕑 Added 2022-08-18 09:58:48 +0000 UTCChapter 077: Jumping off a Cliff
The moon shines bright in the west, the vast sky glitters with stars.
The night breeze is a bit chilly. Su Tingyun opens her eyes after operating her spiritual energy for a full cycle. She sees Ren Yi still sitting there, and his Lord also motionlessly stands next to him.
There’s not a peep in this silent night. The moonlight falls on them like frost, spilling down on their forms as if to paint a cold tableau, cold enough to pierce through one’s heart. Yet hidden within it is an affection that refuses to let go.
There will always be a lot of misfortunes in life. Parting and loss can crush a person's heart, but they can also rapidly make a person stronger.
Ren Yi, who has been limply sitting there for a long time, moves.
He walks to the pond with Ren Jia in his arms and mutters, "I will live well. I’m the only one the Lord can order around from now on. I will follow him all the time, anywhere. Brother, I will bury you in this pond and let it accompany you."
Big orchid tongue grass, Little Bai: "..."
The two leaves that Little Bai has just raised trembles and goes limp again, but it doesn’t make a sound. However, Ren Yi turns his head and pats the leaves of the big orchid tongue grass, the way Su Tingyun usually does, "Why, you don’t want to?"
Ren Yi's tears gather in his eyes as he speaks. Su Tingyun can’t bear to watch it, and she shoots a few pointed looks at the big orchid tongue grass.
Its leaves turn even more limp, but it also doesn’t repeat some choice bad words to say.
This world of cultivation also pays importance to burials and eternal rest, but it’s more like returning flesh and blood to heaven and earth. Spiritual Energy shall return from whence it came, receive the grace of heaven and earth, and return it.
Ren Yi has jumped into the pond with Ren Jia in his arms. The big orchid tongue grass weakly says ‘hahaha’ a few times, weakly clapping its leaves twice as a welcoming gesture.
But once he’s in, Ren Yi stands motionless like he’s been stunned. After what seems like ages, he says, "My brother once said that if he dies, burn him."
Back then, their parents lost their lives in the mouth of a spirit beast. Although their bodies were badly damaged and not in one piece, they were still preserved. That's how his brother dealt with them. It’s just that there were too many spirit beasts in the desolate outskirts at that time. Even if they were buried in the soil, it would’ve been very likely that low level spirit beasts would dig them up and eat them, and that’s why his brother handled it that way.
Ren Yi contemplates for a moment, and he decides not to leave his brother alone in this place.
In the end, Ren Yi burns Ren Jia's body into ashes. He gathers the ashes in a bottle and places it into a storage device.
"Shouldn’t keep my brother all alone." He looks up at Bai Su and says, "From now on, wherever I go, my brother will be there."
They will never be apart.
"M’Lord, let's go!" Ren Yi lifts his head and forcefully squeezes a smile on his face. As he speaks, he places a hand on his chest, where he’s carrying his storage device, a jade pendant containing Ren Jia.
Bai Su nods, "Would you like to have my last name?"
Bai Su is the master. Initially, their names were chosen carelessly. But Ren Jia and Ren Yi, these two brothers actually have names. They were already eight years old at that time, how could they not have names?
Su Tingyun knew that these three weren’t brothers, but now it seems that the boss sincerely intends to treat Ren Yi as his real brother.
But if the boss’ surname is Bai, and Ren Yi also gets the surname Bai...
Won't it become Bai Yi = termite?
"My Lord..." Ren Yi is stunned. He only feels heat on the hand pressed against his chest, and he doesn’t know if the heat came from his heart or his hands.
"Bai Chengyu." Bai Su says softly, "Your second brother is Bai Chengyang, and I'm the eldest brother, Bai Su."
The truth is, he remembers the real names of the two children from more than three hundred years ago. But at that time, he thought it was troublesome and changed those into Ren Jia and Ren Yi for them. Now, Bai Su is apologizing in his heart.
