Morning Star

Chapter 403: Sleeping "Things Have Changed"

I thought my mother would be back when I woke up the next day, but she wasn't.

Another half day passed, and he was very hungry, but he couldn't go out.

He wondered if his mother was angry or didn't want him anymore. He would definitely listen to his mother in the future.

After this he learned his lesson. He stopped crying and making a fuss and stayed quietly in the house waiting for his mother to come back.

His mother would teach him a lot of things when she had time.

If his mother doesn't come back for a few days, he will cook by himself.

He was born with the ability to understand what the birds and animals said, and he could also make them understand what he said, so he often went to the gate of the courtyard to listen to them talk and chat with them.

When he was four years old, his mother began to teach him how to practice and control the evil spirit in his body.

He has a good aptitude for cultivation. My mother said he was born with nine-star spiritual roots. He can learn things quickly and remember many things after reading them once.

He said that he would protect his mother when he grew up. But his mother told him not to let anyone know about his true cultivation until he had enough self-protection ability. She also did not allow him to leave Xuanyu Courtyard.

There was a tablet in the main hall with the words "Mo Lingfan's Spiritual Tablet" written on it. Although his mother didn't say it, he knew it was his father's tablet.

As far as he could remember, every year on his birthday, his mother would take him to kneel in front of his father's spirit tablet.

Daddy is gone. He once asked his mother when his daddy passed away, but his mother didn't tell him.

But then he guessed it.

Dad died on the day he was born.

Later, perhaps because she was afraid that he would be too bored, when his mother came back one day she brought him a little white rabbit.

The rabbit was small and fluffy, with two black eyes, very cute. He liked the rabbit very much.

But the rabbit was really naughty and had a bad temper. It didn't listen to him at all and always went against him. Sometimes it would bite him. He couldn't do anything about it because it was the only one to accompany him in the yard after his mother went out. And the little white rabbit could leave the enchantment. Every time it came back, it would bring him some things from outside.

One day, his mother came back from outside, covered in blood, with bloodshot eyes. It was the first time he saw his mother like this, and he was a little scared. But he still walked over, pulled her sleeve and gently wiped the blood off her face.

But suddenly, his mother grabbed his neck like crazy. He couldn't breathe. He was so scared that he cried. Then his mother let him go.

His mother hugged him and kept saying sorry to him.

He could feel his mother's body trembling, and her hands were so cold that he shivered.

From that day on, his mother would often beat him for no apparent reason, and he almost died several times. However, every time after beating him, she would hug him and say sorry to him.

He was so scared that he started crying, but gradually got used to it. He stopped crying and was no longer afraid. As long as his mother didn't leave him alone and didn't abandon him, that was enough.

In fact, when his mother was awake, she was very kind to him. She taught him a lot of things and cooked delicious food for him.

It's another birthday, and he is already six years old.

His mother told him to learn to be patient, and he agreed to her.

But his mother changed after that. She never smiled at him again and was very strict. She was even more harsh on him when she was not sober.

He got injured every day, and old injuries were compounded by new ones. But his body recovered quickly, and even the most serious injuries could be healed in a few days.

Although she was injured every day, my mother rarely left Xuanyu Courtyard.

He would cry and shout when he was in pain, but this would only result in more severe punishment, and his mother would scold him and tell him not to cry or shout.

Every time he was in so much pain that he couldn't stand up, his mother would always give him his favorite candy to induce him to stand up.

If he couldn't stand up, sometimes she would yell at him, and sometimes she would crush candy and stuff it into his mouth like a madman.

The broken sugar residue stung his throat and mouth, and he didn't know whether the sweetness in his mouth was the sweetness of his blood or the sweetness of the sugar.

Gradually, he no longer liked eating sweets. He felt nauseous and dizzy when he saw that kind of sweets.

Days like this go on day after day, and every day feels long and like torture.

During this period, the little white rabbit he raised was killed by his mad mother. He was sad for a long time. Once he hid and cried secretly, but his mother found out. He thought she would beat him again, but she didn't. His mother told him to bury the little rabbit properly.

On my eighth birthday, my mother was normal.

His mother stood behind him and combed his hair, and patiently taught him how to tie it.

This was the first time in his life that he had tied his hair up, and he looked at himself in the mirror feeling a little dazed for a moment.

He looked in the mirror and saw his mother hugging him and burying her head in his neck.

Only when I felt the wet and warm water sliding into my shoulders did I realize that my mother was crying again.

He didn't know how to comfort her, he just vaguely remembered how his mother had comforted him, so he comforted her in the same way.

After that, my mother talked to him a lot.

Mother said that the person who killed father was Mo Hengsong, who claimed to be his father.

From this moment on, his hatred for Mo Hengsong will only increase day by day, and sooner or later he will kill him to avenge his father.

At night, I knelt in front of my father's spirit tablet as I did in the past.

But not long after, someone from the Mohist School suddenly showed up.

This was the first time he saw anyone other than his mother. There were quite a few people there, and they beat up his mother.

They really said bad things to Mom.

Mo Hengsong was hiding in the dark, but his mother discovered his hiding place and he came out.

That night he witnessed with his own eyes his mother being pierced through the heart by thousands of swords and died. He cried and screamed until he lost consciousness.

He hated Mo Hengsong and everyone in the Mo family. It was they who killed his parents and destroyed his family.

Even if he becomes a ghost, he will not let Mo Jia go.

When he woke up, he found himself locked in a cave surrounded by ice. It was very cold here, and he was only wearing one piece of clothing, and he was shivering with cold.

I just want to find a place to shrink.

My mind is filled with the scene of my mother's death.

His mother was gone, and there was no one in the world who could protect him. He was completely left with nothing.

Suddenly, some ice walls and the ground in the cave began to flash white mysterious totems.

He saw it and felt the demonic energy in his body becoming chaotic, but he didn't care and ignored it.

His mother was dead. What was the point of him living alone in this world? Maybe it would be better if he died.

The totem became more and more obvious, and a mysterious aura floated out from the totem and fell on his body.

Gradually, the evil spirit in his body began to put up a strong resistance, running wild in his body, causing him to grit his teeth in pain and fall to his side on the cold ground, curling up into a ball.

Consciousness gradually blurred.

He didn't know what happened afterwards, and vaguely he seemed to be attacking someone.

Suddenly, something hit him hard on the chest, and his body flew to the side uncontrollably and hit the stone wall.

The demonic energy returned to normal, and his mind became clear, but he felt a sharp pain in his chest and spat out a mouthful of blood.

In order to seal the evil spirit in his body, Mo Hengsong cut open his stomach and replaced three of his ribs.

It hurt a lot when the sharp blade cut his skin, but he didn't make a sound.

This is far less painful than watching my mother die in front of me.

When he woke up, he was locked in a sealed room. The only light came from a glass lamp that would never go out.

Both his hands and feet were tied with heavy iron chains.

He could not sense any demonic energy in his body, nor could he sense any spiritual energy.

The evil energy in the body was sealed and the spiritual roots were destroyed.

He was desperate and hated Mo Hengsong and the others. He wanted to pull out their tendons, peel off their skin, and chop them into minced meat.

But now he is a useless man, locked in this dark cage.

He remembered his mother's last words before she died and Mo Hengsong's action, and he guessed that they wanted to use him.

He didn't want them to get what they wanted, so he tried to commit suicide, but Mo Hengsong found a way to save him.

Maybe this is what it means to be unable to live or die.

They took his blood every ten days, and he would faint every time due to excessive blood loss.

At the beginning, he would try every means to prevent them from taking blood, but it was in vain every time.

Where can he hide with chains on his hands and feet?

Instead, it will lead to beatings and scoldings.

Later he stopped hiding because it was useless. He was still bullied, but he was used to it.

Mo Hengsong seemed to be afraid that he would die from taking blood too many times, so he always sent blood-replenishing meals. He felt sick when he saw them, and he didn't want to eat them. But if he didn't eat, he would be forced to drink them.

He would bathe, of course. But when the weather was cold, the water was icy cold with ice cubes in it. When the weather was hot, the water was boiling hot.

He resisted, but someone would deliberately hold him down and prevent him from coming out of the water.

Year after year, four years passed like this.

On a snowy day, Mo Hengsong told him that he could go out, but he would still have to take blood every ten days.

Although I don't know why he was suddenly released, this is a good thing for him.

That was his first time walking in this strange yet familiar world, but he no longer had the curiosity he had back then. He only had hatred, endless hatred.

He couldn't find the way back to Xuanyu Courtyard, and it was a bird that brought him back to Xuanyu Courtyard.

When I returned to Xuanyu Courtyard, the courtyard was already covered with a thick layer of snow. The door was also open as it was that year.

He walked in and looked around, and found nothing missing except a lot of dust.

It's just that things are different and people are different.

Suddenly, a familiar breath came from the yard.

He stumbled towards the familiar scent.

Stop at a place in the yard.

He remembered that this was the place where his mother fell down when she died.