Previously, when Zhang Bei came, De Ren greeted him, but he wasn't very enthusiastic.
Zhang Bei even had to solve his own meals.
However, after the young man arrived, De Ren became much more enthusiastic.
He not only invited the young man to the guest room for tea, but also prepared meals personally.
“I say, Abbot, you are too biased! You barely even acknowledge me when I come,” Zhang Bei said helplessly.
De Ren clasped his hands together and said, “He is different from you.”
“What’s different? Different in that he is a person?” Zhang Bei asked with a speechless expression.
De Ren shook his head and said, "He is a divine being, it's just that this world doesn't need divine beings."
“What do you mean?” Zhang Bei asked with some surprise.
De Ren just smiled but didn’t answer Zhang Bei.
“You are also from the Zhang family?” De Ren asked Zhang Bei.
Zhang Bei asked in surprise, “You know the Zhang family.”
“Every De Ren in this training ground serves the Zhang family head.” De Ren replied.
Zhang Bei looked at the young man and then at De Ren.
He finally realized that De Ren already knew the young man’s identity.
“How did you know his identity?” Zhang Bei asked.
De Ren said, “After the Zhang family head receives the Heavenly Mandate, they will lose their memories, and their eyes will be blank.
And I can feel a sense of familiarity.”
Zhang Bei looked at the young man, but didn't sense anything special about him either.
“You mean you specifically serve the Zhang family head? What kind of service?” Zhang Bei curiously asked.
De Ren smiled and said, “Memories!”
De Ren didn’t hide anything and briefly explained the situation.
It turned out that this place had been guarding the memories of the Zhang family head all along.
Almost every generation of the family head would appear here after a period of time to search for their past memories.
Zhang Bei knew this was because of the Heavenly Mandate, so what De Ren said might be true.
“Did the previous generation of the family head leave behind any memories?” Zhang Bei asked.
De Ren shook his head and said, “The memories of each generation of the family head are unique.
So once the family head changes, their memory scrolls will be destroyed.
As for the previous generation of the family head, I grew up here and haven't seen any Zhang family head for a long time.
On the contrary, there are always people from the Zhang family coming here every now and then, maybe to fulfill the promises they made on behalf of the family head.”
“What promises?” Zhang Bei asked.
De Ren pointed at the young man and said, “You’ll have to ask him.”
Zhang Bei looked at the young man, he might as well not have asked.
“So, you said that there are Zhang family members coming here every now and then, who was the one before him?”
Zhang Bei thought for a moment and changed his wording.
“Dong Can!” De Ren said.
Hearing this, Zhang Bei couldn't help but look at the young man, and the young man also rarely raised his head to look at De Ren.
It was obvious he wanted to hear De Ren continue.
“Dong Can was sent by the Zhang family to investigate the secrets in the snow mountains.” De Ren said.
Zhang Bei asked, “What secret?”
Zhang Bei wanted to continue asking, but the young man raised his hand to stop him and told him to listen to De Ren.
De Ren smiled at Zhang Bei, his eyes showing a hint of apology.
Back then, after Dong Can received the family's mission, he came here, and when he entered the depths of the snow mountains.
He discovered some golden spherical biological remains buried in the valley.
Later, Dong Can disappeared as if he had vanished into thin air.
Hearing this, the young man kept staring at De Ren, but didn't say a word.
As if De Ren could sense his thoughts, he said, “The way into the snow mountain is behind you.”
“Thank you,” the young man said.
After saying that, the young man stood up and looked like he was going to leave immediately.
“Hey, aren't you going to rest for a night?” Zhang Bei asked hurriedly.
The young man shook his head, carrying his black gold ancient saber, and strode outside.
“Well, I’m asking for nothing.” Zhang Bei said helplessly.
After bidding farewell to De Ren, Zhang Bei hurried after the young man.
This guy didn’t care about day or night and went directly down the mountain path behind the temple.
From here, you could see an endless expanse of snow mountains in the distance.
“Aren’t you going to ask where the road is?” Zhang Bei asked as he caught up with the young man.
The young man shook his head without saying anything, but just walked forward silently.
“How do I feel like you are even less talkative than before?” Zhang Bei said.
Before, when he was with the young man, this guy would at least say a word or two.
Now he wouldn’t even say a single word.
A sense of estrangement arose, which made Zhang Bei confused.
“Could it be because of the Heavenly Mandate?” Zhang Bei frowned.
But he didn’t say anything else and just silently followed behind the young man.
After descending the mountain, the young man followed a small stream all the way, the water in the stream was very cold.
It must have been water flowing down from the melting snow mountains, but it was too cold here.
It caused the surrounding plants to be extremely scarce.
The young man just walked forward silently, and Zhang Bei also tried to talk to him a few times.
But the young man still didn’t answer, either shaking his head or nodding.
Zhang Bei almost thought that the young man might have a tongue problem?
As they went deeper, the water in the stream became smaller, but also colder.
Fortunately, they both brought water bottles, so each of them filled two water bottles.
Zhang Bei directly threw his into the system space, while the young man kept his in his arms.
The temperature in the snow mountains was very low, if the water wasn’t properly stored, it would freeze.
Seeing this, Zhang Bei didn’t bother talking to the young man, grabbed his water bottle and threw it into the system space.
The young man just glanced at Zhang Bei, but didn’t say anything.
The snow mountains were getting closer, and the weather was getting colder.
The small stream had long disappeared, and they walked silently in the snow.
The wind howled around them, but it didn't stop the young man.
At night, they simply found a cave.
Zhang Bei would take out firewood from the system space, which he had collected.
He knew the young man would be wandering around often in the future, so he had prepared everything properly.
There were also quilts and blankets, so even in the wild, they wouldn’t have to sleep on the bare ground.
The young man didn’t show any strange reaction to the inexplicable appearance of these things in Zhang Bei’s hands.
But Zhang Bei seemed to have played this trick in front of the young man before, so that’s probably why.
“Eat something.”
After the meat was roasted, Zhang Bei gave it to the young man.
The young man didn’t say anything, just took the meat from Zhang Bei and silently ate it.
The next day, they continued on their journey, the young man still didn’t say a word.
They traveled through the snow mountains for two days and nights.
At this time, they were at the entrance of a valley.
The valley didn't look remarkable, it was no different from the valleys they had encountered before.
But this valley gave them a strange feeling.
“Be careful!”
This was the first time the young man had taken the initiative to speak to Zhang Bei in the past few days.
“I thought you were going to stop talking to me for the rest of your life.” Zhang Bei said helplessly.
The young man shook his head, ignoring Zhang Bei and carefully walked into the valley.
The valley was indeed not abnormal, but there was a cave at the end of the valley.
The young man just stayed at the entrance of the cave, staring intently at an inconspicuous mark on the wall.
“The Zhang family mark! A Zhang family member has been here.” Zhang Bei said.
The young man nodded and said, “Go in.”
Then, the two of them lit a torch and silently walked into the cave.
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As expected, today is the last day of the free Zhang family.
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