69novels Chapter 28 Goal 1
Chapter 28 Goal 1
As the sun gradually rose on the horizon, the boy's figure appeared on the road.
He walked step by step toward that familiar direction, looking up as the things in his memory overlapped with what he saw before him.
The morning sun shone on him, and he could hear birds chirping in the woods. The night's journey had left his clothes covered in dust and moisture.
However, there was no sign of fatigue on his face. Just like the expression he had shown every day for the past month and a half, he calmly looked at the world before him.
As the sun gradually rose and the morning passed, the boy stopped walking.
The rustling of leaves in the wind filled my ears, and I could feel the softness of the fallen leaves and the soil beneath my feet.
He was in a forest, and the boy looked down at the scenery in front of him. There was a small mound of earth covered with weeds.
It is so inconspicuous in this forest that ordinary people would not notice it, and it exists quietly here.
However, Huo Yuhao will not forget this place, nor will he be unable to recognize it because of the overgrown weeds. After all, this is the place where he buried his mother's remains with his own hands.
According to the timeline of Douluo Continent, it has been more than a year since I last came here. After burying my mother, I worked hard to cultivate, hoping to reach level ten and go to the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain a soul ring and become a soul master.
At that time, I remembered the vow I made at my mother's grave, and at the same time, I was filled with fear, just like when I was desperately running towards the Starry Sky Forest, wanting to escape that place.
Before that, I was also afraid to come here and face my mother. I had no power and could not take revenge. Coming to this grave could only evoke sadness and make tears flow from my eyes.
I didn't come here because I didn't want to weep at the place where my mother is buried, because I know that weeping won't change anything. And coming here would make it hard to control my emotions, so I didn't come here to take one last look before leaving the Duke's mansion.
Thinking of this, the boy felt a mix of emotions he couldn't express, including感慨 (gǎnkǎi, deep feelings), 悲伤 (shāngbāo, sadness), 自责 (zìzé, self-blame), and 怒火 (nùhuǒ, anger).
But he remained standing there, silently watching for a long time.
Only Huo Yuhao truly knew that it wasn't just a little over a year since he last came here; combined with the time he spent in the wasteland, his memories had spanned five years before he saw this place again.
And this feeling can only be experienced by him personally.
Then the boy squatted down, picked up a piece of wood from the ground, and wiped off the dirt and fallen leaves with his hands. It was the tombstone he had carved for his mother with a dagger.
From this perspective, the small mound of earth covered with weeds in front of us can hardly be considered a grave.
Seeing all this, he put the plank down and stood up.
Then he took out an iron shovel from his storage soul tool. He no longer needed the storage soul tool he had made in Shrek City, so he made a new one a few days ago for what he was going to do today.
During this time, in addition to seeing the true situation of this land, I did not slack off for a single day in cultivating my soul power and learning about soul tools.
At this moment, his soul power had reached the peak of level fourteen. With just a few more days of cultivation, he could break through to level fifteen.
He dismantled his original storage soul tool and then bought some better materials to make the badge that he now wears on his waist, which looks like an egg.
Although it was smaller than the previous one, it had more soul guidance arrays on it. However, every line that Huo Yuhao drew was flawless, and the overall appearance was not messy.
Logically speaking, Huo Yuhao's knowledge of soul guidance arrays only reached level two, and the effects of the soul guidance devices he could create could only reach level two.
However, relying on the mathematical knowledge in his mind to understand the soul guidance array, and through the calculation of the soul guidance array and the overall layout arrangement, the soul guidance array inscribed on this storage soul guidance device is more than that of a typical level two soul guidance device, and the connection between the arrays is also more compact and orderly.
This storage soul tool has a space of about ten cubic meters, which is comparable to the level of a typical level three storage soul tool.
By optimizing and arranging the soul guidance array, a level two soul guidance array can achieve the effect of a level three array, which is quite remarkable for a soul guidance master.
However, Huo Yuhao did not realize this, after all, he had not undergone formal training in soul tools, and basically relied entirely on his own exploration and understanding.
Of course, these things are not particularly important to the boy at this moment.
At this moment, he looked at the mound of earth covered with weeds in front of him, and then began to swing the shovel in his hand.
Then the sound of shoveling soil came from the woods, and after a few minutes, the boy stopped shoveling.
Before him lay the straw mat wrapped around his mother's body, quietly in the shallow pit.
Seeing this scene, the boy's eyes were filled with sadness and nostalgia, but he did not cry or shout. He simply wiped his eyes with his sleeve and then immediately went down, picked up the straw mat with both hands, and carried it out of the pit.
This straw mat no longer carried the heavy weight of his childhood memories. To Huo Yuhao at this moment, the straw mat was very light, but his arms still trembled slightly involuntarily.
He carefully placed it on the ground and gently unfolded the straw mat. At that moment, the boy could only smell the scent of earth mixed in with the air.
After all, it had been buried for more than a year, and without a coffin for protection, this straw mat was buried in the ground and left unattended.
The mound outside was overgrown with weeds, and the corpse underground had been eaten and decomposed by insects, no longer resembling the final appearance in my memory.
Looking at his mother lying on the straw mat, the boy still reached out and gently stroked her face. The feeling of his mother's cheek against his face in his memory was gone; now it had turned into bones.
There was nothing to be afraid of. The boy had seen too many corpses in the wasteland, but only this one filled him with a bittersweet feeling when he reached out to touch it.
Even though his skin was damaged, his memories remained. Memories of living with his mother appeared in the boy's mind, and the last look his mother gave him was forever etched in his heart.
Huo Yuhao did not dwell on these emotions, but instead took out a coffin from his storage soul tool.
This was bought from Xingluo City before the boy came here; it was a real coffin, not a straw mat.
Then he took out the women's clothing he had bought when he left Shrek City.
He opened the package, took out the women's clothing, and then began to dress his mother in it.
When he saw the women's clothing, the boy thought of his mother from his memories. She had never worn such beautiful clothes in her life, so he wanted to buy it.
The process was not complicated; it simply involved collecting the bones by hand, placing them in the coffin, and putting on the women's clothing.
After finishing these tasks, the boy picked up the scattered strands of hair. Apart from the bones, only this strand had not disappeared.
Then he arranged the strands of hair in the same way his mother had when she was alive and placed them on her body.
Afterwards, the boy stood in front of the coffin, looked at his mother for a long time, and then slowly closed the coffin lid, nailing it shut as if preparing for burial.
However, at this moment, the boy stopped what he was doing, leaned against the coffin behind him, sat on the ground, and closed his tired eyes.
Tianmeng, who was inside the Sea of Spirit, witnessed the entire process. He was momentarily speechless, but seeing the boy's condition, he still asked, "Are you alright?"