Fantasy Farm

Chapter 110 - Significance of Summer

Edited by Zaki

After Bai Yuehu left, Zhu Rong did not give up chasing the rampaging Zhulong. Although a Zhulong without a keeper was easier to find, according to the previous situation, such a Zhulong was also more dangerous. Their spirits would be in an extremely chaotic state, and they would attack any living creature they see, almost losing all their sanity. Putting such creatures in the human world was extremely inappropriate, not only may lead to heavy casualties in the human world, but also may leak the situation of non-human beings, so that the aftermath would become very difficult.

Fortunately, the Zhulong did not deliberately conceal his whereabouts at this time, making it much easier to find him. Originally, Bai Yuehu followed Zhu Rong to chase him, but he received a call halfway, and his expression suddenly changed drastically, saying that something happened to Qingjiu back at the house.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Rong asked Bai Yuehu to go back quickly. Bai Yuehu did not hesitate and said that he would rush back after taking care of the family affairs and asked Zhu Rong to be careful.

Zhu Rong nodded and watched Bai Yuehu disappear into a layer of black mist. After sending Bai Yuehu away, he turned his attention back to the Zhulong and continued to follow the traces left by it. Soon, the traces became more and more obvious, which also meant that Zhu Rong was getting closer to the Zhulong.

Snowflakes were still falling from the sky, and Zhu Rong’s footsteps stopped outside a dark alley.

There were no lights in the alley, so it was difficult for ordinary people to see clearly what was going on inside. Fortunately, Zhu Rong was not a human being. He was the God of Summer, the King of Flames, so he could clearly see what was going on in the alley.

A thin figure squatted in the corner of the alley. He heard Zhu Rong’s footsteps and stood up slowly. Judging from the appearance, this was just a thin human boy, not even as tall as Zhu Rong’s shoulders, but the strong killing intent exuding from his body told Zhu Rong that the person in front of him was the one that ate his keeper and fled the scene; the missing Zhulong.

“It’s so annoying.” The Zhulong slowly turned his head. His eyes no longer had black pupils, and were completely replaced by red flames. The flames even shot out of his eye sockets, as if the flames were what made up his body. Part of his cheeks were covered with scarlet scales, and dragon horns sprouted from his forehead. He looked like he was about to transform into his beast shape, he stared viciously at Zhu Rong, his eyes were ferocious to the extreme, and he growled with a hoarse voice, “How annoying.”

Zhu Rong was very calm. He was used to such scenes. The long whip turned from flames appeared in his hand, and he said coldly: “Beast, suffer death!”

“Ahhhhhh”  As if stimulated by Zhu Rong’s words, the Zhulong let out a deafening roar and  flames began to burst out from his skin. His skin became charred black, and then began to fall off. In the midnight sky, a giant Dragon made of flames soared into the sky. His vertical red pupils, staring indifferently at Zhu Rong who was standing on the ground, as if looking at an insignificant ant.

Zhu Rong’s lips curved into a sarcastic arc, and he said: “What’s with the madness, is it not all of your own making that you’re in such a state now?”

“Shut up, shut up!” Red flames spurted out from his mouth and went straight towards Zhu Rong. He roared, “Human beings are all liars, they are all liars.”

The flame came into contact with Zhu Rong’s body, but was directly absorbed by him. Zhu Rong flew into the air and shook his long whip. Fortunately, it was midnight in the cold winter. The whole city was almost in deep sleep. There were not many people who would see this scene, otherwise he would have to spend a lot of effort dealing with the aftermath, but even so, he must solve it quickly.

The Zhulong roared again and rushed towards Zhu Rong. Although his body was huge, his movements were extremely flexible. His huge claws and ferocious bloody mouth kept attacking Zhu Rong with deadly moves, leaving no stone unturned. Under his attack, Zhu Rong seemed to be at ease. As an executioner, he had long been accustomed to the attack methods of Dragons. He turned around and dodged another mouthful of hot flames, but Zhu Rong felt a bad premonition. He turned his head and looked at the Zhulong, only to find that the Zhulong’s body had stopped in mid-air and was looking at him with strange eyes.

“I also liked him very much.” Zhulong said, “But I am a Zhulong.”

A Zhulong was a monster who couldn’t control his desires. Wu Xiaohang was actually right, he was really a monster. He was a soul invaded by desire. Even if he could endure it for a while, he could not endure it forever. In this case, let everything below be buried with him.

The Zhulong knew that the fight between him and Zhu Rong could not be dragged out. If Bai Yuehu came back, his chances of winning would probably be even lower. But it didn’t matter. Everything had been prepared since he arrived here.

Seeing the Zhulong rushing toward the residential area, Zhu Rong’s expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly stepped forward to stop him. The Zhulong was a fire creature, and once it rushed towards the residential area, it would immediately cause a huge fire and explosion, and the entire city would probably be reduced to ashes. In the sea of fire, Zhu Rong rushed in front of Zhulong, grabbed his Dragon horns with his hands, and used all his strength to hold him in the air.

Although his body was hindered, the Zhulong was not in a hurry. The weird look in his huge eyes was even more pronounced. A hoarse laughter rang out from his throat. He said: “Is it worth it?”

“Of course it’s worth it.” Zhu Rong said coldly, “Wasn’t your keeper worth it?”

The Zhulong fell silent. He knew that he had a lot of things that he should do, but in the days when he lived with his keeper, those things that he should do were no longer important. He even secretly told himself that if his keeper could accept him as a Zhulong, he would try to endure it a little longer, but when the Zhulong thought of this, his eyes turned cold. The reality was that there were no buts. He was a monster after all, alien from the human world.

The flames on the Zhulong’s body began to burn violently. Zhu Rong noticed something was wrong, but he still did not dare to let go. Once he let go, a terrible disaster would happen. The flames on the Zhulong’s body began to spread towards Zhu Rong’s body. But this flame was light blue like ice and snow. When Zhu Rong saw the flames, his face changed drastically and he said: “You!!”

The Zhulong laughed loudly, with unconcealable malice in his tone: “Ha, you don’t really think I just sneaked into the Human World for fun, did you? Zhu Rong, take your choice.”

As the God of Fire and Summer, Zhu Rong was not afraid of fire, but the light blue flame seemed completely different from ordinary flames. After contact with Zhu Rong’s body, it begins to freeze quickly, and even froze Zhu Rong’s body. Zhu Rong could choose at this time to let go to deal with the flames, but he knew that as soon as he let go, the Zhulong would rush into the residential area below without hesitation, and humans would probably suffer heavy casualties by then.

Seeing that Zhu Rong had no intention of letting go, the Zhulong said coldly: “He really knows you very well, Zhu Rong, you will regret your short-sighted choice.”

Zhu Rong sneered: “I will never regret it.”

From the moment he came to the Human World and wanted to protect this world, he knew that he would never regret it.

Bai Yuehu returned to the city as quickly as possible. He saw Zhu Rong in a stalemate in mid-air with Zhulong. The bright flames emanating from the two of them illuminated almost the entire sky, reflecting the clouds in the sky into a brilliant red color as well. But the flames on the Zhulong’s body gradually turned into a cold light blue, and it quickly enveloped Zhu Rong. Bai Yuehu’s expression changed when he saw this scene, and he didn’t care about anything else, and hurriedly transformed into his beast form. He flew towards the Zhulong, but before he could reach it, a violent noise erupted from where Zhulong and Zhu Rong were. The sound was simply earth-shaking. Following the sound, Bai Yuehu saw the Zhulong’s body exploding in mid-air like fireworks. Ice-blue flames sputtered everywhere. Bai Yuehu hurriedly protected the residential area below, so that the ice blue flame would not hurt people.

This blue flame seemed to be different from ordinary flames. The temperature was extremely low, and everything it touched froze instantly.

Zhu Rong, who was closest to the Zhulong, froze in mid-air, and then fell straight down.

Bai Yuehu quickly stepped forward to touch him, but the moment he touched Zhu Rong’s arm, his heart sank.

Zhu Rong had been completely frozen into the shape of an ice sculpture. His eyes were open, but there was no sparkle in them at all. But for some reason, Bai Yuehu saw a sad look in his eyes, as if he had discovered some secret that was difficult to accept. He originally wanted to catch Zhu Rong’s body, but when he tried to reach out, Zhu Rong’s body began to weather into tiny fragments, and within a moment, it dissipated in Bai Yuehu’s hands.

The Zhulong self-destructed, dragging Zhu Rong down to hell. Bai Yuehu lowered his head and saw lights lighting up one after another in the dark residential area. They seemed to be sleeping humans who were awakened by the loud noise and wanted to see what was going on outside in a sleepy daze.

But everything was over at this time. Bai Yuehu looked at the last fragments in his hand that had also turned into dust that he couldn’t hold, dissipating in the long winter night.

Just when Bai Yuehu was about to turn around and leave, a faint layer of black mist appeared in front of him. The outline of the man was looming in the black mist. His voice came out from the black mist, and his tone was cold. In one sentence, he asked: “Bai Yuehu, do you really want Lu Qingjiu to die?”

Bai Yuehu paused, turned his head, and called out the man’s name: “Ao Run.”

Lu Qingjiu felt very cold. This kind of coldness was very different from usual. It could not be alleviated by putting on thick clothes or putting on a warm stove. The cold seemed to seep out from the cracks in his bones. As the blood flowed throughout his body, he could only keep drinking hot water to make himself feel better.

Yin Xun sat next to him with a worried expression, boiling water for him to drink. He also took out the ginger tea left by Zhu Rong and poured it all into Lu Qingjiu’s drink. After drinking ginger tea, Lu Qingjiu felt a little better. He leaned against the bed, his teeth chattering from the cold.

Yin Xun asked worriedly: “When will Bai Yuehu come back? Will we be able to make it in time?”

Lu Qingjiu leaned on the Kang bed, eyes half-closed. Seeing this, Yin Xun hurriedly stepped forward and touched Lu Qingjiu’s skin, only to feel that it was already cold. He was anxious, but he could not do anything, he could only keep circling around in the house.

“No, no, I have to go out and take a look.” Yin Xun said, “Jiu‘er, just hold on a little longer.”

Lu Qingjiu hummed vaguely, not sure if he heard Yin Xun’s words.

After Yin Xun left, Lu Qingjiu was still lying quietly in the room. When he was about to fall asleep, he felt a pair of warm hands touch his forehead. The burning temperature of those hands scalded him almost to the point of a jolt, and then he let out a sigh of comfort.

Lu Qingjiu opened his eyes and saw his Grandfather Ao Run.

“Grandpa” Lu Qingjiu said, “Why are you here?”

Ao Run held Lu Qingjiu’s hand, and wrote in the palm of his hand: Let Yin Xun take you away.

Lu Qingjiu: “En?”

Ao Run: Let him take you out of Shuifu Village. He wrote softly and went down the mountain road.

Lu Qingjiu said: “But isn’t the mountain road blocked? We can’t get out.”

It doesn’t matter. Ao Run wrote, I have melted the snow on the mountain road, you can go down by car, go, Qingjiu. It seemed that he really wanted Lu Qingjiu to leave the place and even paved the way for him. However, Lu Qingjiu found something strange about Ao Run. After taking a closer look, he found that Ao Run was gradually becoming transparent. It seemed like he was about to disappear.

“Grandpa, are you okay?” Lu Qingjiu was startled, and had a bad feeling in his heart.

I’m fine. Ao Run was very calm, it seemed that there was really no problem, I am just too tired and need to take a rest.

Lu Qingjiu said: “Why?”

Ao Run reached out and touched Lu Qingjiu’s head: Get out of here, Qingjiu, this is the best choice for you.

Before Lu Qingjiu could say anything, Yin Xun’s voice sounded outside the house. When Yin Xun pushed the door open and entered, Ao RUn had also disappeared in front of Lu Qingjiu. Yin Xun said: “Jiu’er, who are you talking to?”

Lu Qingjiu shook his head, didn’t answer, just asked Yin Xun how the situation outside was.

“The snow on the mountain road has melted.” Yin Xun said, “I don’t know when Bai Yuehu will come back. Let’s go down to the town first.” The altitude of Shuifu Village was relatively high, and the temperature was much lower than that of the town. Since the snow on the mountain road was gone, and it was not known how long Lu Qingjiu could last in this state, Yin Xun just wanted to do what he could.

Lu Qingjiu did not answer.

Yin Xun urged: “Jiu‘er, why don’t you say anything?” He grabbed Lu Qingjiu’s wrist and felt that his skin was really cold, without even the most basic human temperature. He felt even more anxious, “Or if you don’t want to leave, I’ll call Bai Yuehu again and ask when he will be back.”

Lu Qingjiu thought a lot. He thought about the melancholy in Ao Run’s expression, and the divination that the Old Tree gave him. “When the water runs out in the land of poor mountains, in a village of dark willows, it is difficult to keep flowers tomorrow. If you do not enter the water, assistance is unavoidable, and the mountains and rivers will not be restored.” So far he had not thoroughly figured out what this hexagram meant, and what kind of secret it contained.

“No, I won’t go.” Lu Qingjiu finally rejected Yin Xun.

Yin Xun was extremely anxious after hearing this. He was really afraid that Lu Qingjiu would slowly turn into a stiff ice sculpture in front of him. Out of fear, he kept running around the house anxiously. After Yin Xun had circled around a few times, his cell phone rang suddenly, and when he opened it, it was Bai Yuehu’s number.

“Hi, how is Qingjiu’s situation?” Bai Yuehu’s voice came from the other end of the phone.

Yin Xun was overjoyed, thinking that Bai Yuehu was coming back soon, he hurriedly said, “Come back soon, Qingjiu’s state is not very good.”

Bai Yuehu replied: “You go to the town with Qingjiu immediately, and I’ll come back after I’ve dealt with the affairs here.”

Yin Xun didn’t expect Bai Yuehu to say that. While he was happy, he also felt a little worried. He said, “When will you come back? And who cleared the snow on the mountain road?”

Bai Yuehu said: “Don’t worry, Lu Qingjiu’s Grandpa did it, go ahead, pay attention to safety.”

After he finished speaking, he hung up the phone. Yin Xun was stunned for a moment, and quickly told Lu Qingjiu what Bai Yuehu said on the phone.

When Lu Qingjiu heard this, he felt very strange. Why did Bai Yuehu know that Ao Run helped him clear the snow on the mountain road? Could it be that the two of them were together at this time and Bai Yuehu’s words obviously meant that the matter had not been settled yet. He didn’t know what had happened.

Yin Xun didn’t think as much as Lu Qingjiu, and hurriedly urged Lu Qingjiu to leave.

Lu Qingjiu finally agreed. He was helped up by Yin Xun. After Yin Xun stuffed his body with hot water bottles, he took him outside the house and got into the minivan.

Yin Xun sat in the driver’s seat, started the engine and let the pickup truck drive to the town quickly.

The pickup truck beeped twice, and it seemed that he understood Yin Xun’s words.

Just when the pickup truck was about to set off, a familiar figure suddenly appeared in front of the road. Lu Qingjiu took a closer look and found that this person was the monk Xuan Yu whom he had met several times. Xuan Yu held an oiled paper umbrella in his hand, and stood quietly in the wind and snow. After saluting to Lu Qingjiu, he called out, “Benefactor Lu”.

“What are you doing in the front?” Yin Xun yelled unhappily, “Get out of the way, we’re leaving.”

Xuan Yu didn’t move, nor was he annoyed, he just showed a faint smile.

Lu Qingjiu stretched out his hand and pulled Yin Xun to signal him not to get excited, and then said, “Young Master, what is the matter you have come to me about?”

Xuan Yu said: “I have something to tell Benefactor Lu.”

Yin Xun suddenly became furious when he heard this. He said: “Xuan Yu, what do you want to do? We are leaving now. Don’t block the way.”

Xuan Yu looked at Yin Xun quietly: “Benefactor Lu is a destined person, and the power of choice should be in his hands.”

“You fucking dog shit” Yin Xun directly cursed rudely, “He’s going to die soon. Do you want to watch him die in Shuifu Village? Get out of here!”

Lu Qingjiu was taken aback by Yin Xun’s state. He had never seen such an irritable Yin Xun. It was as if he had taken gunpowder and full of fire. If Lu Qingjiu hadn’t stopped him, he might have stepped on the accelerator and ran down Xuan Yu.

Xuan Yu didn’t seem to be afraid of being hit at all, and still stood quietly in the middle of the road, blocking the way of the two of them.

“What’s going on, tell me.” Lu Qingjiu rubbed his once again frozen hands and said, “What’s going on?”

Yin Xun said anxiously: “Jiu‘er, don’t listen to his nonsense. If you stay here any longer, you will really die.”

Lu Qingjiu shook his head and patted the back of Yin Xun’s hand gently to indicate that he was fine.

Xuan Yu walked slowly to Lu Qingjiu’s side, and the two looked at each other through the car window. Xuan Yu’s expression was still serene, his eyes carried a strong compassion, as if he was a Buddha who transformed everything, he said, “Benefactor Lu, if you leave here, Ao Yue will die.”

Hearing the name Ao Yue, Lu Qingjiu was stunned for a moment, and then realized that Ao Yue was Bai Yuehu’s real name, ah, it turns out that his family’s fake vixen was called Ao Yue, it was really a cute name like a little girl. The thought of Bai Yuehu brought a smile on Lu Qingjiu’s face, and the impact of Xuan Yu’s words also faded.

“His name is Ao Yue.” Lu Qingjiu said with a smile, “I just came to know.”

Xuan Yu nodded and continued: “As a guardian, you can’t leave Shuifu Village, and at such a critical moment, if you leave, not only your lover, but also your friends, and all living things in the world will die. ”

Yin Xun, who was sitting next to him, couldn’t listen any longer, opened the car door and rushed towards Xuan Yu, and threw Xuan Yu to the ground, he strangled Xuan Yu’s neck viciously, and roared: “Shut up! Damn monk, what are you talking nonsense here? Shut up!”

Lu Qingjiu was taken aback by Yin Xun’s actions, and hurriedly got out of the car and pulled Yin Xun back. After Yin Xun was pulled away, Xuan Yu didn’t intend to get up, and just lay quietly in the snow, letting the snowflakes fall on his face and body.

Lu Qingjiu barely managed to stand, he looked at Xuan Yu, “If you have anything to say, Young Master, just keep talking. I’m listening.”

Xuan Yu looked up at Lu Qingjiu, he said: “Benefactor Lu, perhaps it would be happier not to know, do you really want me to continue?”

Lu Qingjiu replied: “Young Master is joking, didn’t you come here to tell me the truth? You are right, at least the power of choice is in my hands.” Regardless of whether the end result was good or bad.

Xuan Yu said: “Okay.”

Yin Xun, who was standing aside, suddenly burst into tears. He grabbed Lu Qingjiu’s hand and begged him not to listen to Xuan Yu’s nonsense anymore. He begged him to leave with him. He also said that Bai Yuehu would be back soon, as long as Bai Yuehu came back, nothing would happen.

Lu Qingjiu could only comfort Yin Xun like a child. He thought of the realm that belonged to Yin Xun, the withered grass and tombstones, and the lies that Yin Xun had told. If he left him in Shuifu Village, he and Bai Yuehu might be living the same bad days as before, but even so, Yin Xun wanted him to leave, to leave this place.

“You tell me.” Lu Qingjiu said.

“Zhu Rong, the God who controls Summer, is dead.” Xuan Yu lay in the snow and spoke slowly, “Without the support of the power of the four Gods, the two worlds will soon merge.”

Lu Qingjiu stayed where he was after hearing this. When Bai Yuehu left in a hurry just now, he had a premonition that something bad must have happened, but he didn’t expect that Zhu Rong was actually dead.

“And you are the only one who can stop all of this.” Xuan Yu said, “Bai Yuehu can’t do it, Zhu Rong can’t do it either, only you can do it.”

Lu Qingjiu said: “But I don’t know what to do.”

Xuan Yu smiled softly, and said, “You will know, someone has already given you the answer.”

Yin Xun couldn’t listen anymore, he roared in anger and rushed towards Xuan Yu again. This time Lu Qingjiu didn’t stop him, all his attention was focused on what Xuan Yu had said.

According to Xuan Yu, he was the only one who could stop all this, but how could he stop it? He was just an ordinary person with a quarter of the Dragon blood. What could he do to prevent the tragedy he least wanted to see from happening?