Helfas felt that the being in front of him obviously had too many characteristics of a winged man, but he said that he was a birdman, which was strange.

However, he did not refute or interrupt the other party, so the being who called himself Chulando told Helfas about his past.

It was a bizarre and absurd story, but it made Helfas feel frightened and deeply uneasy.

"I was born in a very special place, where there are two completely different regions with completely different environments and ecological differences."

"One is called the Birdman Continent, and the other is called the Sky Plane."

"As soon as I was born, the first scene in my memory was of countless people with wings surrounding me and flying towards the sky, accompanied by the overwhelming sound of wings vibrating."

"They cheered and prayed, as if they were escaping from purgatory and flying to heaven."

"They just flew away from the Birdman Continent, passed through a huge door, and entered the sky plane."

"This is how the kingdom of the sky was established."

Helfas stood quietly and the being sitting on the ice sculpture seat did not look at him, talking as if he was minding his own business.

—

The sky plane is surrounded by a layer of something called a crystal wall, and inside is a huge floating island.

There are forests on the islands floating in the crystal walls, with a variety of plants and animals.

In this way, Chulando began to grow up in the Sky Kingdom of the Sky Plane. He was born to be the king here and was a god-like existence in the eyes of others. And because he was treated like this as soon as he was born, he never thought about why. so.

However, he is content with this.

He has a huge palace here, with countless people worshiping him. He can play in the gardens and forests as he wants, and is accompanied by a large number of servants, subjects and believers.

But sometimes, he also gets curious.

He would come to the huge door leading to the Birdman Continent, and from there he would look at the distant continent under the clouds, staring at the dense jungle in a daze.

So he asked his priest: "What is it like inside the mainland?"

The priest told him: "The mainland is much larger than here, with rivers stretching thousands of miles, boundless seas, frozen snowfields and high mountains."

He was very surprised: "Then why don't we move to the mainland?"

The priest said: "Because there are all kinds of terrifying monsters wreaking havoc and destruction on the continent. They are keen to kill us and destroy our cities and civilization. We cannot survive in groups there, and once we disperse, our power will be too great." Too weak, not even beasts can compete.”

"Moreover, we are prone to getting sick there, and our tribes will die in large numbers. We even feel uncomfortable breathing there."

When Qiuranduo heard the priest describe it like this, he felt that the Birdman Continent was extremely scary.

And then, he saw those terrible monsters appearing through the door several times.

Those weird ones are all huge in size.

Some can destroy a town with one blow, some sweep through the sky with densely packed tentacles, and some have a back exposed in the fog like a mountain.

He didn't dare to look anymore, fearing that if he took a few more glances at those terrifying monsters, he would notice the world and crawl in through the door.

So he went to the priest and said, "The sky plane is better."

Priest: "Of course, this is our paradise, the kingdom of the sky."

Chulando: "Then we have to be more careful. Can we close that door? It would be terrible if those monsters come in."

Priest: "Those monsters can't get in."

Chulando finally felt relieved. He had been worried about such things recently.

The priest added: "But the sky plane is not always safe."

Chulando: "Is there also danger here?"

The priest nodded: "Yes, every few hundred years or a thousand years, a terrible strange thing will appear in the sky plane. Its name is the Prisoner Bird. It will destroy the passageways of the sky plane and destroy the entire sky plane." The surface is frozen and no one is allowed to enter.”

This was the first time Chulando knew about this. He quickly asked: "Can't we kill it?"

The priest shook his head, looked at Chulando and said, "I once told you that weirdness cannot be killed directly."

Chulando: "So it has appeared before and destroyed the Sky Kingdom, and will it appear again in the future?"

The priest nodded: "Yes."

Qiuranduo was reluctant to let this place be destroyed: "I will definitely find a way to stop it. This is my kingdom and I will never allow a monster to act recklessly here."

The priest did not retort: ​​"You will definitely find a way."

Qiuranduo was a little worried, but he was also happy that the priest believed in him.

Priest: "Then you should grow up quickly!"

Chulando: "Does that mean you will become stronger and smarter, and you will be able to fight against those monsters?"

The priest nodded: "Yes, especially you, you will gain the power that truly belongs to you when you become an adult."

—

Just like what the priest said.

Qiuranduo became stronger and stronger, even a little too strong. His strength far exceeded that of ordinary people, and his vitality was so tenacious that even earth dragons could not match it.

Before he officially came of age, he was already able to easily overturn an earth dragon to the ground during a wrestling match. He even suppressed the opponent with one hand, laughing and listening to the whimpering and whining of the ferocious beast.

In the Sky Kingdom, all the subjects and believers prostrate themselves on the ground, cheering and worshiping Chulando.

"king!"

"King of the Sky!"

"The oldest bird-man, our king of the sky, the great founder of civilization."

"Look at your body, you are as majestic and powerful as a god!"

Qiuranduo stepped on the ground dragon and raised his hands high.

He was showing off his strength, or proving his ability to protect the kingdom.

And one night.

He was lying on the bed in the palace and suddenly felt the blood in his body swell, as if something was burning inside his body.

However, the power surged out of his body and turned into a layer of white frost that directly froze the entire palace. As the rolling chill surged out, he felt that his body was extremely hot, as if furnace magma was pouring out of his throat. .

He opened his eyes and rolled down from the bed, only to find that something terrible and weird was happening in his body.

He opened his mouth and roared out the "magma" that was about to pour out of his throat.

However, the sound that came out was a high-pitched bird call.

"Chirp!"

He suddenly found that he was transforming into a huge bird, with gray-white feathers extending continuously, shaking off the terrible frost.

He was so panicked that he screamed.

"I became a monster, a monster."

"Priest!"

"The priest is there!"

"What exactly is going on?"

However, what came out of his mouth was not a human voice at all, but just a bird's cry.

Of course, such a movement in the palace was immediately noticed by people, but no one dared to approach at all. The crowd surrounded the palace, watching the terrifying cold air pouring out from the palace and freezing in all directions, and listening to the terrifying bird calls from the windows. The sound from the palace door filled my ears.

There was a noise outside, and after a while a figure hurried into the palace.

It was the priest, and he was looking at Chulando, who was turning into a big gray-white bird little by little.

Say: "Don't be afraid, you have grown up and are beginning to find your own strength."

Chulando was originally in a panic, but the priest's voice calmed him down. He remembered what the priest had said to him.

"Yes, especially you, you will gain the power that truly belongs to you when you become an adult."

He always thought that becoming stronger was the so-called strength, but it turned out that the strength the priest mentioned was actually this.

He calmed down, no longer panicking or fearing the power coming out of his body, and even began to feel and try to get in touch with that power.

After letting go of his resistance and guarding, he felt that the power was so familiar, as if he had used it countless times before.

He could freeze the surrounding life into ice sculptures with a wave of his hand, and he felt that he could freeze the world around him by fluttering his wings.

He was extremely excited.

The originally low mood turned into high spirits.

What a powerful force this is, the power that belongs to him.

With this power, the monsters on the Birdman Continent no longer seem so scary, at least they are no longer irresistible.

As long as he becomes familiar with and gradually strengthens this power, he will no longer have to fear anything. He can even use this power to enter the Birdman Continent and do something there.

in the following days.

He began to constantly try to change into the form of that big gray-white bird, and he could even feel that the bird he transformed into became bigger and bigger each time.

Because this is not increasing one's own power, but directly taking back one's own power, but the direct feeling is that Chulando's power is getting stronger like flying, almost changing every day.

In front of the palace.

He became more confident, with a light in his eyes.

Ciurandot wore a spacious robe, revealing a chest as strong as marble, and looked up at the sky.

"call!"

He spread out his huge gray-white wings and flew into the sky.

He flew out of the suspended island where the Sky Kingdom was located, and even flew out of the vicinity of the crystal wall to observe the strange existence that protected them at close range.

It's called a crystal wall, but except for the extraordinary vision that can sense its existence, the crystal wall itself seems to be something that doesn't even exist.

It looked extremely beautiful, but he clearly felt that as long as he touched or touched that thing, it would disappear directly.

Yes, the meaning of disappearing appeared in his mind directly and instinctively.

It's just that he doesn't know exactly how it will disappear, but this does not prevent him from knowing not to touch that thing easily.

He circled the suspended island, flew from above to below, and then flew back from the other end.

He flew through his kingdom in the sky, flying over the cities and towns, spreading his wings and making a sharp bird call.

"Chirp!"

Along the way, you can see a large number of bird people from cities and villages coming out together to watch the giant birds passing by in the sky.

They didn't panic and immediately recognized who it was.

"King of the Sky."

"Dear Sky King."

"it is true."

They even directly called him in this form God.

"Look, it's God. It's God who's back."

"O God, protect our master!"

"The **** has returned again, and he has found his power!"

They called him a god, worshiped him, and shouted wildly.

For Chulando, it may have happened before, but this moment is completely different.

So at this moment.

He truly felt like he was a god.

He felt that he was omnipotent, and the infinitely expanding power made him feel that he could do anything he wanted to do, and he felt a little elated.

Chulando flew back to the palace, folded his wings and turned into a **** and landed on the ground.

The first moment he stood firm, he saw the priest waiting for him. He immediately walked towards him and said happily at the same time.

"Priest!"

"See how powerful I am."

"Nothing can hurt me. I can even take you out. I can protect you even outside."

However.

The priest looked at Chulando with a complicated expression. He didn't understand. He felt that the other party should be happy for him.

But before he had time to think about it, the priest bowed down and saluted him.

"O great King of the Sky!"

"Please come with me."

Qiuranduo asked in confusion: "Where to go?"

The priest turned around and walked along the corridor in the other direction: "You can go back to the past."

—

In a corner of the sky kingdom, almost all objects here have turned into ice crystal structures.

The forest of ice crystals, with transparent wild beasts and transparent wild ferns hung with frost, is truly beautiful.

Chulando had never known that there was such a place in the Sky Kingdom, he said to the priest.

"There is such a beautiful place, you should have brought me here earlier!"

The priest continued walking forward, and finally they came to a forest of steles.

Not far in front of Qiuranduo, an ice crystal monument stood like a sword, about five or six meters high, with densely packed text engraved on it. There were countless such ice crystal monuments stacked on top of each other.

Chulando: "What is this?"

Priest: "It exists like a tombstone."

Ciurandot: "Who is buried?"

Priest: "No one."

Qiulanduo was very surprised: "Why build a monument if there is no one?"

Qiu Landuo got closer and saw the largest words on the ice crystal tablet, which were clearly written with someone's name.

And if you take a closer look, it's clearly your name.

"my name!"

"Who made this and why was my name engraved on it?"

The priest stood behind Chulando: "You carved it on."

Qiuranduo turned his head and said: "Priest, please don't joke."

The priest looked at Qiulanduo quietly: "You may have a hard time accepting it, but you should have noticed it a long time ago, the attitude of the people around you and the names you use."

"Those things are not inherited by you, but belong to you originally. The power, the throne, the knowledge, everything here."

"You have lived many times, so you are the destined king of the sky kingdom, because you built this place."

"Every time you feel that it is about to end, you will come here and leave your life behind, so that when you come back next time, you will at least have a little sense of what you have done."

Qiuranduo fell silent. He looked directly at the forest of steles in front of him, and after a while he finally asked.

"Is this all me?"

Priest: "Yes."

Looking at it from a high place, this forest of steles contains at least several thousand ice crystal steles. If each stele represents Qiu Lan's life, one more time.

Then this forest of steles represents that he has experienced thousands of life and death separations.

But when you stand on the ground and look at it, you can only see the shadows of a few tall ice crystal monuments, and everything behind them is blocked.

Qiuranduo looked at the few ice crystal tablets that could be seen, and many things emerged in his mind involuntarily. He may have thought about it before, but he had never seriously thought about where he came from and why he became the King of the Sky. What should you do after becoming a king? All of this must have necessity and meaning!

Nothing comes out of thin air and must have its own needs.

But at that time, these problems were instantly forgotten in his mind. He had so many interesting things to do and interesting places to play. It was so comfortable and beautiful here that he didn't have to think about these problems at all.

But at this moment, as he looked at these ice crystal tablets, the answers to those questions and answers might be found on these ice crystal tablets.

Qiulanduo watched for a long time, and he suddenly felt a little scared.

If he knew this, could he still live such a comfortable and beautiful life?

He suddenly said: "Let's go back!"

Priest: "Okay!"

Qiuranduo: "Don't you want to persuade me?"

Priest: "The king has the right to decide."

Chulando turned around and walked, but when he heard what the priest said, he stopped again.

He asked: "If I leave like this, can everything here continue?"

The priest shook his head: "Probably not. Even if you don't have to face this, you still have to face something else in the end."

"You can escape the facts, but time will push them forward."

Ciurandot asked: "How many times have I lived?"

The priest told him the answer.

"Nine thousand three hundred and twenty-five."

"Eight, 430,000 years."

He was already prepared to accept this answer, and he also mustered up the courage to prepare to welcome his past life and understand his past.

But when he heard this number, the courage he mustered went through his chest and finally came to his face, but what he showed was a look of confusion and astonishment.

He asked again: "How much?"

The priest also said it again: "Nine thousand three hundred and twenty-five times, 8.43 million years."

Chulando: "Why have I lived so long and what have I been doing for so long?"

Priest: "You'll know after you go in."

There was finally movement in the ice jungle.

He moved forward step by step, and finally came to the foot of the nearest ice sculpture stone tablet, which was left by himself in the previous life.

He raised his head, took a deep breath, and the first paragraph that came into view was.

"I am a prisoner bird in a cage."

Just the first sentence he saw made his expression change suddenly.

His fingers trembled slightly: "What does this mean?"

Priest: "That's what you understand."

—

The end of the land of snow.

On the strange cloud platform, Helfas had been silent, but after Chulando said this, he stopped and became silent.

Helfas then took the initiative to break the silence: "Sure enough, that weird guy called the prison bird is you."

In fact, when Helfas first heard the word "prison bird", his eyes changed a little, because the name Chulando means prison bird.

He even doubted, was Chulando really a real name?

Chulando admitted.

"Yes, I didn't understand until I got there. UUReading www.uukｎshu.net"

"So I'm the weirdo."

"Prison bird."

Helfas then continued: "I think the way you became a professional back then must have been unsatisfactory. The previous life professionals who truly possessed wisdom were all existences like witches, and you should not have the talent of a witch."

"So every few hundred years or a thousand years, your wisdom and consciousness will gradually be eroded and obliterated by the power of life, and eventually you will forget everything, and even fall into collapse and madness."

"So the sky plane will be closed every once in a while, and everyone has to leave and wait until the next time to welcome you back, so they will return to that place to establish a kingdom."

"Civilization started over and over again during this period, and it continued to reincarnate."

Chulando: "Why do you know so clearly?"

Helfas: "I have seen similar situations before. I was unable to anchor my consciousness. In the end, I could only fall into collapse bit by bit in the conflict between wisdom and life until everything returned to the original point."

Ciurandot: "You are very knowledgeable."

Helfas: "So, you are the founder of civilization a long time ago?"

Qiuranduo: "You will know if you listen again."

Helfas was not in a hurry, as long as Chulando was willing to continue talking.

And he was even more interested in the following story. He had an intuition that he could find part of the secret of how this era began.

Even.

The witch's secret.

But Helfas didn't know that he was trying to spy on the witch's secrets, and the witch was also spying on him.

He was just completely immersed in the story and the so-called truth at the moment. He had always been so tireless in wanting to know more, wanting to know the so-called truth and searching for various secrets. (End of chapter)