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Hunting the Heavens

A different world

A different world

Dec 27, 2024

Camden originally wanted to keep his eyes open and watch how the damn fate would force him to death, but he underestimated the strong wind in the valley that made his eyes hurt. He closed his eyes in despair and listened to the wind whistling and singing in his ears, as if it was a long nightmare that had not ended after waiting for a long time.
Sudden, a series of "dong dong" sounds of knocking on the mountain wall sounded in his ears, followed by the shaking of the mountain and the "boom" sound coming from the infinitely high above his head, and the mouth of the canyon was covered by a huge shadow.
Camden, who was falling, barely opened his eyes and vaguely saw a silver-white giant egg that was larger than him passing by his eyes, bumping back and forth between the mountain walls below him, and then fortunately stuck into a strange notch.
With a "katz", the top of the eggshell broke open, and a gray little head stretched out, looking at Camden who was falling above, with confusion flashing in his eyes.
"I'm not dead yet!"

A glimmer of hope flashed across Camden's originally dull eyes. He forced his eyes open and stared at the eggshell below. When his body fell to the same level as the eggshell, he suddenly grabbed the broken eggshell with force.

"Hmm!"

The sharp eggshell made Camden's fingers slip out of a long crack, and blood flowed out. The impact just now made his face twitch and he almost fainted.

"I can't die. I still have a lot of things to do and a long way to go!"

Camden held back the panic in his heart, gritted his teeth, and didn't look down.

In the cold wind, the boy's weak figure hung on the abrupt eggshell, swaying. Above him was the dim sky that was narrowed into a gap, and below him was an abyss that could not be seen at a glance.

"Gugu!"

Little Liefeng suddenly shouted twice in joy, stretched out his tongue with barbs to lick Camden's bleeding wound.

"Snap!"

There was a sharp pain in his hand, and Camden accidentally dropped one of his hands.

No matter how resolute he was, he was just a child under ten years old, and a thin arm could not support his whole body.

"Is it over?"

The little hand holding the eggshell slowly slid down, and Camden's mind was blank. He looked down at the abyss below him, and a bitter smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"Snap!"

The remaining hand full of scars finally ran out of strength and slid down. Camden closed his eyes with a miserable look between his eyebrows.

Just then, he suddenly felt his collar tighten, and then the whole person was lifted up.

The ten-year-old child who had experienced the ups and downs of life fell into the eggshell, panted for a moment, tried to prop up his body, and looked at the "meat bird" who saved him in confusion, but saw that it was also looking at him blankly.

The man and the bird looked at each other in the egg.

In the moment of confusion, Camden felt a warmth on his cold hands. It was the young bird flapping its sparsely feathered wings to wrap his pale hands. Camden shuddered slightly, and warmth flowed through his heart. An ugly smile appeared on the corners of his stiff mouth.

"Gugu~~~~"

The man and the bird looked at their bellies at the same time, and then they both laughed, but the laughter was extremely unpleasant.

"There is such a big and psychic young bird in the world... Well, your mother is so cruel to throw you here. It seems that we are in the same boat. We are both children who have left our mothers. Hey." Camden sat cross-legged in the huge eggshell, supporting his head and looking at the big bird in front of him sucking the fiery red liquid in the shell. "What's your name? That's right, even if your parents gave you a name, you wouldn't know it. Well... I'll call you Gugu, little Gugu."

"Gugu~~~~" As soon as the voice fell, Camden's stomach growled again.
"Hoo, hoo!" Little Liefeng, who was busy filling his stomach, raised his head and looked at Camden in confusion. Perhaps it was because it was the first creature he saw that made him feel particularly friendly. He cooed twice, and then excitedly patted Camden with his wings, pointing at the liquid in the eggshell.

"You want me to eat this? This is inside your balls... not so good." The stomach cried out again as if in protest, and Camden's face turned slightly red. "Well, thank you, little coo, I'm not polite."

The fiery red liquid looked scary, but it exuded a slightly salty and fishy fragrance. It was sticky like porridge when eaten, smooth in the throat, and a ball of heat rose after entering the stomach, nourishing the internal organs. Camden, who had only relied on pancakes, wild vegetables and raindrops to fill his stomach for several months, was greatly encouraged and greedily drank the delicious soup under his mouth. The hungry man and bird drank to the end, but it seemed that they were still not satisfied. The two little tongues "hooked" out, and soon, the eggshell was licked clean by them.
Camden, who had a very enjoyable breakfast, didn't know that deep inside his body, the liquid that had not been completely absorbed was slowly flowing, emitting a rich glow that reflected outside his body. He was lying in the eggshell with his head raised, patting his bulging belly and looking at the sky at the mouth of the egg. He didn't notice the fiery red halo floating all over his body, and then gradually dimmed.

Just then, he heard the sound of metal hitting stone from the opposite side. It turned out that the little bird, which had drunk enough, was energetic and began to jump. It was stretching out its black beak and pecking at the other end of the eggshell happily. Camden smiled faintly, retracted his gaze, and his brows gradually frowned. Just as he began to worry about the next road, a thumb-thick light shot over from the end of the eggshell, followed by the harsh sound of the stone wall collapsing and the panicked jumping of the little goo.
"The valley wall was actually pecked through by Little Gu?" Camden stood up suddenly, looking at Little Liefeng with a mouth full of stone chips and covering his head with his wings as if he had done something wrong, and then shook his head helplessly. "But I have never heard of such a supernatural bird in the world. It seems more like the strange beasts in the legend. Little Gu must be extraordinary." In front of him was a hole that had been drilled through, and the sunlight gathered into a ball of light and shone in, covering him and Little Gu. Seeing Little Gu curiously jumping in, Camden hesitated for a moment, then patted his butt and followed him in. "It's just like what Daddy said, there is always a way out." Holding Little Gu, who was also stunned, Camden stared at the scene in front of him. The scenery in the cave was like a border town after sunset, with lush fruit trees on both sides, clear rivers flowing around, canals, windmills and thatched houses by the water, but it seemed that there was no one living. Looking far away, there is a Taoist temple at the end of the dense forest. The temple is so huge that it blocks Camden's sight, and a figure can be vaguely seen in front of the temple.
Camden was slightly happy, looked back at the small hole connected to the cliff, picked up the eggshell and played with it for a while, then used the haystack to cover the hole, pulled the wings of Xiao Liefeng and said, "There is someone there, let's go."
Walking closer, Camden saw an old man with white hair and beard sitting in front of the huge Taoist temple, wearing an old hundred-knotted hemp clothes, with a wooden stick on his head, shaking the lottery tube in his hand and shouting, "Draw the lot, draw the lot, the master will guide you, official luck, financial luck, and love luck can all be calculated."
There is such a place in the crack of the wall of the secluded valley, and there are people, like fortune tellers, Camden sighed slightly in his heart, but still looked lost.
When Camden was just wandering around, he thought that these messed up fortunes were too far away from a child like him, and he had just experienced a life-and-death catastrophe, so it was better not to mess with this strange old man. He looked around again, and after a long while, he didn't see any figure. Camden thought that there might be someone in the Taoist temple, so he didn't stop and walked in with Xiaogu.

"Wait a minute!" The old man seemed to have just discovered Camden at this time, and looked at them in surprise. Suddenly, his face changed drastically, and he raised the lottery tube in his hand and wanted to hit Xiaogu, "Evil beast! How can the Taoist holy land allow you, an egg-born fool, to come in and out at will!"

Xiao Liefeng was startled. Seeing the righteous old man staring at him with hatred, the lottery tube in his hand seemed to be about to fall at any time. He couldn't help but tremble all over, and hid behind Camden in a blink of an eye.

"Hey, what is this?" His eyes drifted over the eggshell fragments in Camden's hand, and a trace of curiosity flashed in the old man's eyes.
"This is... this is... well, I'll give it to you if you like it, as long as you can let us in." Camden said embarrassedly. He didn't have any gold coins on him, and he blushed a little when he took an eggshell he picked up to play with to please the old man.

Unexpectedly, the old man quickly reached out to take it, and put on a smile in the blink of an eye.

"Wulian Daozun, my Dao is broad and all living beings are equal. Please come in, two distinguished guests."

Camden, who was slightly stunned and confused, looked at the old man who continued to play with the lottery tube, and asked after a moment of silence, "Excuse me, where is this?"

"Here? Can't you, little kid, read? Didn't you see what's written on that big sign?" The old man glanced at Camden and said in a muffled voice.
"Taoist temple? What is that place? Martial arts?"

"Martial arts? Humph, in the eyes of you vulgar people, there is probably only martial arts in the world, fighting and killing all day long, humph, vulgar, so vulgar. I won't say anything more, you won't understand even if I say it, go in quickly, people are still waiting inside!" The old man turned his head impatiently and ignored Camden.

"Is there any other way?" Camden was full of doubts, and he was still thinking about the old man's words when he walked into the Taoist temple. What did he mean?

Camden was ten years old. The most powerful force he had come into contact with in the past ten years was martial arts. In his mind, the strongest people in the world were nothing more than the legendary martial arts masters, which was also his goal. However, he was not born with enough talent. He had the bloodline of a big family, but he was a rare waste material physique and could not practice martial arts. This has become a laughing stock in the powerful family of Dayu. There are very few wastes like Camden.

Camden gritted his teeth, clenched his fists unwillingly, and walked while thinking, and unknowingly came to the depths of the temple. A white shadow passed by in front of his eyes. The ten-year-old boy looked up and saw a woman in a white robe and plain shoes standing in front of the lotus pond covered with pear blossoms. She had a graceful figure, a high bun, and a face as serene and beautiful as the autumn moon.
She was feeding the fish under the tree.
"You are here... a little hunter and a person. Hmm? It's actually a real person..."
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